Available surface treatments, apart from painting, include surface hardening, surface alloying, surface coating and hybrid processes. Due to the importance of surface treatments, a first volume appeared in 2008 and this is the second volume; in which emerging technologies and applications are presented. The purpose of this volume is to review the progress made in the most popular modern surface-treatment technologies and applications for structural materials. This will aid materials scientists and engineers in selecting suitable materials and techniques for research and applications. The book contains papers on emerging technologies for the deposition of metal or composite powders as thin films, cold spraying, surface nano-technology, cladding, pack-cementation, high-velocity thermal spraying, functional plasma spraying, supersonic flame spraying, etc.
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