TY - GEN
T1 - Surface engineered titanium - The automotive metallic material of the 21st century
AU - Bell, T.
AU - Dong, H.
PY - 2004
Y1 - 2004
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:33646192255
SN - 0871708140
SN - 9780871708144
T3 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Surface Treatment: Research and Applications, ASTRA
SP - 12
EP - 19
BT - Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Surface Treatment
T2 - International Conference on Advances in Surface Treatment: Research and Applications, ASTRA
Y2 - 3 November 2003 through 6 November 2003
ER -