Surface Engineering

Volume 26 (2010), 8 issues a year.

  
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Surface Engineering provides a forum for the publication of refereed material on both the theory and practice of this important enabling technology, embracing science, technology and engineering. Contributions are invited on any aspect of the use of surface engineering to produce surface-substrate systems having mechanical, tribological, chemical and/or functional properties that cannot be achieved from the individual components alone. Coverage includes design, surface modification technologies and process control, and the characterisation and properties of the final system or component, including quality control and non-destructive examination.

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Special issue of Surface Engineering celebrates life and achievements of Tom Bell
Professor Bell made internationally recognised contributions to the development of surface engineering and had an outstanding ability to transfer these innovations to industrial applications, effectively bridging academia and industry. A key insight was the approach of designing the substrate and surface (coating) of a component or device as an integrated system, to provide a level of overall performance that neither could achieve alone, which implied the need for surface engineers to be involved at as early a stage in the design process as possible.

Articles in the special issue (2010, Vol. 25, Issues 1–2) cover many of the areas in which Professor Bell contributed over the course of his career, including, among others:

• low temperature plasma enhanced diffusion and coating processes
• the expanded austenite (‘S’) phase on stainless steels
• duplex surface treatments (combining typically a bulk treatment such as induction hardening with a hard coating to enhance performance)
• surface engineering of titanium to enhance wear performance (e.g. for automotive applications)
• bio-tribological surface engineering systems
• modelling of contact stresses for surface engineering design
• surface engineering with reduced environmental impact
• micro- and nanoscale mechanical testing