Surface engineered titanium - The automotive metallic material of the 21st century

T. Bell*, H. Dong

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Abstract

Industrial exploitation of the high specific strength and corrosion resistance of titanium has been dominated historically by the technological advances which have been made in gas-turbine engine and aircraft components. Realisation of the possible benefits in automotive engineering has been limited by the absence of any proven and reliable means of overcoming the poor wear resistance and galling tendency suffered by titanium alloys when in contact with other materials. This problem can only be addressed by optimising and demonstrating industrially viable surface engineering processes for titanium in general engineering, and by providing the technology transfer necessary to establish titanium engineering components in the automotive sector. In the present paper the status of single and duplex surface engineering systems are reviewed. In addition, in order to realise fully the potential of advanced surface engineering of titanium components, contact mechanics models have been developed to enable the automotive engineers to design dynamically loaded automotive engine and transmission components.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Surface Treatment
Subtitle of host publicationResearch and Applications, ASTRA
Pages12-19
Number of pages8
Publication statusPublished - 2004
EventInternational Conference on Advances in Surface Treatment: Research and Applications, ASTRA - Hyderabad, India
Duration: 3 Nov 20036 Nov 2003

Publication series

NameProceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Surface Treatment: Research and Applications, ASTRA
Volume2004

Conference

ConferenceInternational Conference on Advances in Surface Treatment: Research and Applications, ASTRA
Country/TerritoryIndia
CityHyderabad
Period3/11/036/11/03

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Engineering

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