Coating Technology for Vehicle Applications [Hardcover]

This book describes current, competitive coating technologies for vehicles. The authors detail how these?technologies impact energy efficiency in engines and with increased use of lightweight materials and by varying coatings applications can resolve wear problems, resulting in the increased lifecycle of dies and other vehicle components.PrefaceEnergy consumption due to friction in motored vehicles and low-friction coatings to reduce itAli Erdemir, Kenneth HolmbergDiverse Coatings for Engine PartsSung Chul ChaOverview of DLC-coated engine componentsMakoto KanoCoating Technologies for Automotive Engine ApplicationsArup Gangopadhyaycustomized coating systems for products with added value from development to high volume productionTim Hosenfeldt, Yashar Musayev, Edgar SchulzSurface Treatments for Automotive ApplicationsJoerg VetterHard Coatings and Coating Processes for the Automotive IndustryAndre Hieke, Val Lieberman, G.J. van der KolkSurface texturing for engine partsGerhard Flores, Andreas Wiens, Manuel WaiblingerCoatings for Aluminum Die-casting DiesSung Chul ChaCoatings for Forming Dies of Advanced High-Strength SteelSung Chul ChaDiamond-like carbon coatings with special wettability for automotive applicationsSo Nagashima, MyungWoon MoonSmart surfaces for lubrication  solid lubricants and adaptive textureTomas Polcar, Albano CavaleiroDecorative PVD coatings on Automotive PlasticsThomas Krug, Roel TietemaIndex

Sung Chul Cha is a Senior Research Engineer at the Hyundai Motor Group, Automotive, Research and Development Division, in Hwaseong, Korea. He received his Diploma of Engineering (1998) and a Doctor of Engineering degree (2001) in Georesources and Materials Engineering from RWTH Aachen, Germany. In 2002 he became a research associate and postdoc at the Department of Interface Chemistry and Surface Engineering at the Max Planck Institute for Iron Research (MPIE), D?sseldorf, Germany, and continued his research in the field of high tlsˆ