Surface Coatings, Volume I: Raw Materials and Their Usage

Techniques (by Steffens), (5) Bulk Coatings for Use as Elevated Temperatures (by Bucklow), (6) Applications and Evaluation of Ceramic Coatings Produced by Sol-gel Technology and Vapor Deposition Procedures (by Bennett), (7) Testing and Inspection of Coatings (by Steffens, Crostack and Beczkowiak), (8) Techniques for Structural Analysis of Deposited Materials: Correlation of Film Structure and Properties (by Jacobsen), (9) A Survey of Methods used for the Performance Evaluation of High Temperature Coatings (by Nicoll), (10) Gas Turbine Applications (by Pettit), (11) Coating of Diesel Engine Components (by Kvernes) and (12) Surface Treatments for Tribology Problems (by Childs).With the exception of Pettit, Goward, and McGuire, who work in the U.S.A., all the authors work in Europe.The articles are generally very readable by engineers who are not specialists in coating technology.Sufficient detail is provided to permit an appreciation of the advantages and disadvantages of the various technologies.The list of references at the end of the chapters would seem to be adequate and recent, though certainly not complete; for example, Hinterman's very considerable contributions to vapor phase deposition techniques applied to bearings, especially titanium nitrides and carbides, are not listed.