THE coatings, 5th International Conference and EUREKA Brokerage Event

Forward
Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. K.-D. Bouzakis, Director of ΕΕΔΜ

Key factors for an improved performance of tools, machine elements and numerous others technical parts are the properties of their surfaces. Today, the contribution of coatings of all kinds, to a superficial properties enhancement, effectively and at relatively low cost, is of crucial importance.
Aiming to create an international forum, concerning coatings applications in the field of production technique, embracing the state of the art and the future trends in coatings research and development, THE Coatings Conference was established. This Conference organized in one and a half year periods in Greece and in Germany alternately, was initiated in 1998 during the CIRP conference in Athens, by three academic Institutions:

• the Laboratory for Machine Tools and Manufacturing Engineering (ΕΕΔΜ), Aristoteles University of Thessaloniki (Prof. K.-D. Bouzakis)
• the Institute for Production Engineering and Machine Tools (IFW),University of Hannover (Prof. H.-K. Toenshoff),
• and the Laboratory for Manufacturing Technology (LFT), University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (Prof. M. Geiger),

After having held successive conferences in Thessaloniki (1999), Hanover (2001), Thessaloniki (2002) and Erlangen (2004), the 5th THE Coatings onference is organized again on October 5-7, 2005 in Kallithea of Chalkidiki in Greece.
It is a great pleasure for ΕΕΔΜ, with the support of the Hellenic EUREKA office, to organize the 5th THE Coatings Conference. In ΕΕΔΜ, research activities results, elaborated in various scientific Institutions, Companies and in ΕΕΔΜ will be presented.
The EUREKA brokerage event, organized at the end of this Conference aims to stimulate collaborations between Research Institutions and Industry towards the creation of projects in the frame of the EUREKA Initiative, for the development of innovative products and services.
I wish to all participants a pleasant stay in Kallithea of Chalkidiki.

Contents

Plenary
• Coated cutting tools performance characterization supported by nanoindentations, impact tests and fem simulations
  K.-D. Bouzakis, N. Michailidis, G. Skordaris, A. Asymakopoulos, E. Lili, A. Sampris

• Characterisation of ceramic coatings generated by laser pyrolysis of sicn-polymers
  H.-J. Krauß, G. Motz, A. Otto, M. Geiger

• Surface preparation, coating and wear performance of geometrically defined cutting edges
  B. Denkena, M. Reichstein, J. Brodehl, L. de Leon Garcia

• A survey of advanced coatings as key element of modern cutting tools and functional components
  G. Erkens

• Current Development Trends in the Thermal Spray Technology – a Short Overview
  K. Bobzin, E. Lugscheider, J. Zwick

• Coatings and structuring of electronic devices
  K. Feldmann, M. Rösch, T. Bigl

  Manufacturing

• Coated tools and environmentally friendly lubricants for machining inconel 718
  F. Klocke, D. Lung, K. Gerschwiler, J. Grams

• Performance of multilayer cvd diamond films
  E. Uhlmann, R. Kott, J. Gussone

• Effect on PVD coated cemented carbide inserts cutting performance of micro-blasting and lapping of their substrates
  K.–D. Bouzakis, G. Skordaris, N. Michailidis, A. Asimakopoulos, G. Erkens

• Cutting performance improvement through micro-blasting on well-adherent pvd films on cemented carbides inserts
  K.-D. Bouzakis, G. Skordaris, I. Mirisidis, N. Michailidis, G. Mesomeris, E. Pavlidou, G. Erkens

• Wear development of cemented carbide inserts coated with mono and multilayer PVD films, considering their strength properties and the cutting loads
  K.-D. Bouzakis, J. Anastopoulos, A. Asimakopoulos

• Establish the durability of some hard PVD coated drills
  R.-G. Ripeanu, I. Tudor, A. Tache

• Correlation between mechanical strength properties of PVD films and the wear behavior of coated tools
  K.-D. Bouzakis, J. Anastopoulos

• Impact of annealing on characteristics and cutting performance of altin coating in turning tests
  G. Fox-Rabinovich, J. L. Endrino, A. Kovalev, S. Veldhuis, F. Fontaine, B. Beake, L. Shuster, G. Dosbaeva

• Effect of PVD film residual stresses on the cutting performance of coated cemented carbide inserts
  K.-D. Bouzakis, J. Anastopoulos, G. Skordaris

• Novel precision and micro grinding tools made by chemical vapour deposition of diamond
  J. Gäbler, L. Schäfer, S. Pleger

• High performance (Cr1-x, Alx)N PVD-coatings for thixoforming of AL-MMC
  K. Bobzin, E. Lugscheider, M. Maes, P. Immich

  Machine Components

• Thin hard coatings for application in machine components
  R. Michalczewski, W. Piekoszewski, M. Szczerek, W. Tuszynski

• About the advantages of pulsed plasmas to apply advanced tribological coatings on bearing components
  G. Erkens, R. Cremer, T. Rasa, J. Müller, Ch. Brecher, G. Spachtholz

• Test of PVD coatings in the wave bearing environment. Part I: One thousand start-stop and oil-off tests
  F. Dimofte, R.F. Handschuh, M. Jo Long-Davis, Ch.J. DeTardo

• Test of PVD coatings in the wave bearing environment. Part II: Test of coatings under low oil supply pressure down to zero
  F. Dimofte, R.F. Handschuh, M. Jo Long-Davis, Ch.J. DeTardo

  Coating Deposition Process

• Micro-structuring of thin-film nano-coatings and modification of functional surfaces by UV-laser radiation
  H.K. Tönshoff, U. Stute, F. Otte, F. Meyer, S. Gollapudi

• Study of Flattening Mechanism of Plasma Sprayed Copper Particles
  D.K. Christoulis, D.I. Pantelis, F. Borit, V. Guipont, M. Jeandin

• New approaches concerning the enhancement of wear and corrosion resistance of magnesium parts by thermally sprayed coating systems
  E. Lugscheider, Fr.-W. Bach, K. Bobzin, K. Möhwald, M. Parco, K. Richardt, L. Engl

• Re–Cr composite prepared by simultaneous deposition using thermionic vacuum arcs
  C.P. Lungu, I. Mustata, G. Musa, A.M. Lungu, S. Stoleriu, F. Sava, M. Popescu, K. Iwasaki, R. Tanaka, Y. Matsumura, I. Iwanaga

• A novel method of the deposition of zinc coatings on low carbon steels
  D. Chaliampalias, N. Pistofidis, G. Vourlias, E. Pavlidou, G. Stergioudis, E.K. Polychroniadis, D. Tsipas

• The usage of metallic additives for the alteration of the structure of zinc coatings
  S. Konidaris, N. Pistofidis, G. Vourlias, G. Stergioudis, D. Tsipas

• Properties of coatings produced by DC plasma torch of the novel design
  M. Vilotijevic, B. Dacic, D. Bozic

  Properties Characterisation

• Depth resolved residual stress measurements of coated carbide cutting inserts
  B. Denkena, B. Breidenstein

• Coating elastic-plastic properties determination by nanoindentations and FEM-supported evaluation algorithms
  K.-D. Bouzakis, N. Michailidis

• Quantitative nano+micro metrology of coatings
  N. Gitis, N.M. Vinogradov, A. Daugela

• Impact test on PVD coatings, at elevated temperatures
  K.-D. Bouzakis, E. Lili, A. Sampris, N. Michailidis, E. Pavlidou, G. Skordaris

• Performance of different PVD tool coatings in sheet metal forming operations
  W. Lauwerens, F. Clarysse, M. Van Stappen, K.-D. Bouzakis, I. Mirisidis, E. Lili, A. Sampris

• A novel method to characterize cohesion and adhesion properties of coatings by means of the inclined impact test
  K.-D. Bouzakis, A. Asimakopoulos, G. Skordaris, J. Anastopoulos, E. Pavlidou, G. Erkens

• Mechanical characterization of semimanufactured and finished components by means of fimec test
  G. Costanza, R. Montanari, F. Quadrini, M.E. Tata

• Materials Constitutive Laws and Hardness Determination, based on Nanoindentations and FEM-based Evaluations
  K.-D. Bouzakis, N. Michailidis, G. Skordaris

• A FEM based simulation of nanoindentation to determine superficial gradation of strength properties
  K.-D. Bouzakis, G. Skordaris, N. Michailidis

• Characterization of diamond-like coatings on hard metal cutting tools via Raman spectroscopy and piezospectroscopy
  S. Lo Casto, E. Lucchini, O. Sbaizero, V. Sergo, N. Scuor, M. Nicolich

• Coating failure propagation during impact test evaluated by image processing techniques
  K.-D. Bouzakis, R. Paraskevopoulou, G. Giannopoulos

• Force signal evaluation during the impact test
  K.-D. Bouzakis, A. Sampris, E. Lili

• Importance of measuring coatings with “scratch tester” devices
  J. Du_an

  Surface Treatments & Tribology

• Mechanical Pre-treatment of Ceramic Substrate Materials for Successive Coating
  E. Uhlmann, T. Hühns, S. Grigoriev, W. Reimers, S. Dieter

• Ni/SiC composite electrocoatings
  E.A. Pavlatou, N. Spyrellis

• Effect of laser surface alloying of X38CRMOV5-3 hot work tool steel
  L.A. Dobrza_ski, M. Piec, K. Labisz, A. Lisiecki, A. Klimpel

• Surface treatments of valves materials and their effects on surface characteristics
  Ch.I. Sarafoglou, D.I. Pantelis, A. Karantzalis

• Tribologial behavior of CRN-WX% coatings deposited by magnetron sputtering
  T.-H. Liu, Y.-L. Su, C.-T. Su, S.-H. Yao, W.-H. Kao, C.-A. Hsu

• Tribological behavior of coated tools surfaces for metal powder sintering
  M. Babic, S. Panic, M. Zlatanovic

• Comparative analysis of tribological performances of materials that can achieve thin layers from selective transfer
  F. Ilie

• Tribological behavioUr of Cr3C2/NiCr composite plasma sprayed coating on steel substrate
  A. Koutsomichalis, N.M. Vaxevanidis, A. Diamanti, G. Petropoulos, T. Papazoglou, S.S. Antoniou

• Comparative wear resistance of glow discharge-plasma-nitrided and gas nitrided specimens
  R. Gligorijevic, J. Jevtic, Dj. Borak

• Preparation and characterization of GMR layers deposited by Thermionic Vacuum Arc Technology
  I. Mustata, C.P. Lungu, A.M. Lungu, O. Brinza, V. Zaroschi, V. Kuncser, G. Filoti, N. Apetroaei