Objective Coating failure by debonding during service is essentially a fatigue failure process and there is an urgent-need for a method of testing for the industrial quality assurance of coatings where impact is experienced. Accordingly, the RTD objectives of the proposed programme are: 1) to develop an automatic impact testing machine for the evaluation of coating systems under various impact conditions at a range of temperatures experienced by impact forming tools; 2) to investigate the response of a variety of coatings systems to impact wear and thus correlate the structures and properties of the coating, interface and substrate wit such impact wear conditions as frequency, force, time, temperature and indenter geometry; 3) to simulate, model and develop software packages for the service behaviour of coating systems under application conditions involving impact and vibrational wear. Fields of science natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftwareengineering and technologymaterials engineeringcoating and filmsnatural sciencesmathematicspure mathematicsgeometry Programme(s) FP4-BRITE/EURAM 3 - Specific research and technological development programme in the field of industrial and materials technologies, 1994-1998 Topic(s) 0202 - New methodologies for product design and manufacture Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme EAW - Exploratory awards Coordinator MICRO MATERIALS LTD. EU contribution No data Address Unit 3, The Byre Wrexham Technology Park LL13 7YP WREXHAM United Kingdom See on map Total cost No data
