Coating
Wear protection through metallic powders

Source: FH Münster | Translated by AI 3 min Reading Time

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A team from the Münster University of Applied Sciences (Germany) is further developing a powder metallurgical wear protection coating in the "WearECO-Enamel" research project. A novel enamel is to be developed for this purpose.

At over 1,000 degrees Celsius, fine metal particles fuse into a resilient protective layer on components. The team aims to optimize the enamel needed for the melting process.(Image: FH Münster/Department of Mechanical Engineering)
At over 1,000 degrees Celsius, fine metal particles fuse into a resilient protective layer on components. The team aims to optimize the enamel needed for the melting process.
(Image: FH Münster/Department of Mechanical Engineering)

It gets hot in the lab as the chamber furnace opens and Jan Philipp Berges takes out a sample. The piece of metal glows yellow and red, then the student quenches it in water. At more than 1,832 degrees Fahrenheit, the powder particles contained in the applied paste bond to form a uniform, metallic layer on the surface of the component, which is intended to protect it from wear in the future—a technique researched by Prof. Dr. Jürgen Peterseim and Dr. Tobias Schniedermann with the help of students at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. In the now completed research project "Ultra-Coat," financed and commissioned by the industrial partner Altenburger Maschinen Jäckering GmbH, the team further developed this coating technology.

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