Conference Scope
The theme of ICAP2008 is the degradation of engineering surfaces by wear involving hard particles through both abrasive wear and erosive wear, and the beneficial use of the same processes in manufacturing engineering components. The meeting will bring together two communities whose work is very closely related to discuss their common interests: tribologists specializing in wear, and engineers and applied scientists specializing in abrasive processing.
Coverage of the conference will include both experimental and theoretical studies of practical industrial applications, as well as more fundamental research. Themes which will be covered include:
- Abrasion and erosion damage by solid particles, liquid impact or cavitating liquids
- Abrasive processing, especially with free abrasive particles e.g. polishing and abrasive flow machining
- Magnetorheological and electrorheological fluids in abrasive processing
- Erosive processing, including micro-abrasive jet blasting and etching
- Abrasive water-jet cutting and profiling
- Chemical-mechanical polishing and planarization (CMP)
- Theory and modeling of abrasive and erosive processes
- Scratch deformation of bulk materials and coatings
- Experimental methods and standardisation of tests
- Studies of mechanisms of erosive and abrasive wear and material damage
- Abrasion-corrosion interactions and synergies
- Erosion-corrosion, both at high temperatures and in aqueous environments; related chemical and electrochemical processes
- Abrasion and erosion of metals, plastics, ceramics, cermets, composites and biomaterials
- Abrasion, erosion or erosion-corrosion resistant coatings and surface modification, including erosion of thermal barrier coatings
- Damage to optical materials and windows
- Sensing and monitoring of abrasive and erosive processing; process control and optimization
- Case studies of practical examples
The conference will be of interest and value to researchers in academia and industry studying the wear of materials by abrasive and erosive processes, as well as related materials processing methods.
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