Progress in Adhesion and Adhesives, Volume 5

K. L. Mittal

• Publisher: Wiley-Scrivener
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN: 9781119748069
• eBook ISBN: 9781119749905
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Tecnologia e ingegneria
• Subtopic: Scienza dei materiali

A solid collection of interdisciplinary review articles on the latest developments in adhesion science and adhesives technology

With the ever-increasing amount of research being published, it is a Herculean task to be fully conversant with the latest research developments in any field, and the arena of adhesion and adhesives is no exception. Thus, topical review articles provide an alternate and very efficient way to stay abreast of the state-of-the-art in many subjects representing the field of adhesion science and adhesives.

Based on the success of the preceding volumes in this series "Progress in Adhesion and Adhesives", the present volume comprises 13 review articles published in Volume 7 (2019) of Reviews of Adhesion and Adhesives.The subject of these reviews fall into the following general areas.

1. Adhesively bonded joints
2. Adhesives (including bioadhesives) and their applications
3. Nanocomposite polymer adhesives
4. Polymer surface modification
5. Wettability and surface free energy
6. Adhesion of bacteria.

The topics covered include: Adhesion behavior of plasma treated steel and its alloys; debonding on demand of adhesively bonded joints; bioadhesive polymers; adhesives in the footwear industry; nanocomposite polymer adhesives; ion beam treatment of polymer surfaces to enhance adhesion; natural to artificial non-wettable surfaces and applications; plasma oxidation of polyolefins; wettability and surface free energy characterization of textiles; bioadhesive nanoformulations; laser-assisted tailoring of surface wettability; functionally graded adhesively bonded joints; adhesion of colloids and bacteria to porous media.

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Physico-Tribo-Mechanical and Adhesion Behaviour of Plasma Treated Steel and Its Alloys: A Critical Review

Jitendra K. Katiyar¹ and Vinay Kumar Patel^2,*

¹ Department of Mechanical Engineering, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur Campus, Chennai, Tamil Nadu-603203, India

² Department of Mechanical Engineering, Govind Ballabh Pant Institute of Engineering and Technology Ghurdauri, Pauri Garhwal, Uttarakhand-246194, India

Abstract:

Steel and its alloys are the most commonly used materials in industries such as bearing, automotive, aerospace, manufacturing including medical sector for fabrication of different types of components and products because of their light weight. But these materials have restricted use in extreme conditions environments because of their poor properties such as adhesion, corrosion resistance, wear resistance and tribological properties. The researchers have tried to improve these properties by applying coatings and surface treatments using plasma. Most of the researchers have used plasma nitriding for surface treatment of different grades of steel in either N2-H2 or O2 environment. They have varied the temperature between 300 to 700 °C and treatment time from 20 min to 20 h according to the grade of steel. They observed an improvement in adhesion property and corrosion resistance with plasma treatment but the higher plasma exposure time and increment in temperature caused degradation in adhesion property due to formation of brittle layer followed by its destruction due to mechanical stresses. Therefore, researchers have further developed duplex plasma treatment of steel and its alloys. The duplex plasma treatment consisted of plasma nitriding followed by either plasma oxidation in most of the cases or surface coatings. For surface coating, diamond-like coating (DLC) was widely used by researchers. DLC coating is carried out by using physical vapour deposition method. They observed drastic improvement in adhesion, corrosion and tribological properties of steel and its alloys as compared to a single treatment, due to the formation of S-phase and CrN layer on the surface. Further, they also observed the decomposition of CrN into expanded austenitic phase which further transformed into martensite with increase in temperature and treatment time, thus resulted in reduction of corrosion and wear resistance properties. Hence, optimum treatment time and temperature are required for surface treatment of steel and its alloys using plasma process. In this review, the positive impacts of various plasma treatments of steel and its alloys on physico-tribo-mechanical and adhesion properties are systematically and critically reviewed.

Keywords:

Corrosion resistance, hardness, wear resistance, adhesion, adhesive bonding, stainless steel, austenitic steel, martensitic steel, plasma treatment

1.1 Introduction

Presently, many industrial sectors such as bearing, automotive, aerospace, medical, etc. are using steel and its alloys for fabrication of components and products. Steel and its alloys exhibit high strength to volume ratio, good machinability and formability, but these materials show poor adhesion, corrosion resistance and tribological properties. To improve these properties the researchers have widely employed plasma processing of steel and its alloys. Nitriding is the most common method used by various researchers to improve adhesion and corrosion properties [1–4]. They performed nitriding process at various temperatures and treatment times and reported improved adhesion and corrosion properties because of formation of S-phase and CrN layer on the surface but the CrN decomposed with increment in temperature and treatment time. Therefore they suggested an optimized temperature and treatment time.

However, researchers observed that a single plasma treatment was not sufficient for improvement of corrosion property as well as adhesion. Hence, they proposed the duplex plasma treatment on a steel surface. They used nitriding followed by oxidation or diamond-like carbon coating as a duplex treatment. They reported a drastic improvement in corrosion resistance, adhesion and tribological properties.

The tribological properties were carried out on different types of tribometers depending on the application such as pin-on-disc, ball-on-disc, reciprocating sliding tester, and fretting test rig. A three-body wear phenomenon was reported by most of the researchers. But the optimum treatment temperature and time provide better tribological properties in terms of friction coefficient and wear resistance.

This review paper discusses all the developments reported for the improvement of physico-mechanical, adhesion and tribological properties of different grades of steel using different plasma processes. Therefore, the paper is divided into three sections. First section describes the effect of a single plasma treatment on steel and its grades. Second section discusses the drawbacks of a single plasma treatment, and advantages of double plasma treatment. The tribological properties (analysis of friction and wear properties) of plasma treated steel and its alloy are the topic of the last section.

1.2 Single Plasma Treatment for Improvement of Physico-Mechanical and Adhesion Properties

Steel is the most commonly used material in industries such as bearing, automotive, aerospace, defence, etc. Various grades of steel are available in the market such as austenitic stainless steel, AISI 316 steel, etc. The steel is highly corrosion resistant but it has poor friction and wear properties. The friction and wear are dependent on the adhesion property ...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Table of Contents
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Preface
• 1 Physico-Tribo-Mechanical and Adhesion Behaviour of Plasma Treated Steel and Its Alloys: A Critical Review
• 2 Debonding on Demand of Adhesively Bonded Joints: A Critical Review
• 3 Chitosan-Catechol Conjugates–A Novel Class of Bioadhesive Polymers: A Critical Review
• 4 Adhesives in the Footwear Industry
• 5 Nanocomposite Polymer Adhesives: A Critical Review
• 6 Adhesion Enhancement of Polymer Surfaces by Ion Beam Treatment: A Critical Review
• 7 Non-Wettable Surfaces – From Natural to Artificial and Applications: A Critical Review
• 8 Plasma Oxidation of Polyolefins-Course of O/C Ratio from Unmodified Bulk to Surface and Finally to CO2 in the Gas Phase: A Critical Review
• 9 Procedures for the Characterization of Wettability and Surface Free Energy of Textiles - Use, Abuse, Misuse and Proper Use: A Critical Review
• 10 Bioadhesive Nanoformulations—Concepts and Preclinical Studies: A Critical Review
• 11 Laser-Assisted Tailoring of Surface Wettability-Fundamentals and Applications: A Critical Review
• 12 Improved Mathematical Models of Thermal Residual Stresses in Functionally Graded Adhesively Bonded Joints: A Critical Review
• 13 Adhesion of Colloids and Bacteria to Porous Media: A Critical Review
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