SAE Transactions, Vol. 111, Section 2: JOURNAL OF COMMERCIAL VEHICLES (2002), pp. 211-218 (8 pages) A failure mode in engine components that undermines engine reliability is scuffing; defined as ...

Typical physical-vapor-deposition (PVD) hard coatings are 20 times thinner than a human hair, yet they can drastically improve performance, boost reliability, and extend service lives of tool and ...

: An example of a physical vapor deposition (PVD) coating is Oerlikon Balzers’ BALINIT C. The coating is a WC/C ductile carbide carbon coating that is highly resistant to adhesive wear (scuffing) in ...

Amorphous carbon coatings with very low friction properties were recently developed at Argonne National Laboratory. These coatings have shown good promise in mitigating excessive wear and scuffing ...

Colorcon’s OptiClenz delivers cGMP-validated high-performance coating equipment cleaning. Colorcon’s OptiClenz is a high-performance coating equipment cleaner that utilizes soak and spray methodology ...