What is it about?
This chapter paper describes corrosion and discusses how various surface treatments are used to prevent it. The topics covered include electroplating, electroless plating, spray coating, galvanization, paining, anodizing, physical vapor deposition (PVD), and chemical vapor deposition.
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Why is it important?
Surface Finishing is very important to most industries for a variety of reasons. The finishing process could be used for reflectivity, improving hardness, or for decorating a finished product to attract potential buyers. However, from an engineering point of view, its main purpose is to prevent corrosion. Corrosion is actually a process whereby manufactured metals return to their natural oxidation states. Corrosion is of economic importance because it limits the life time of metal structure (example: bridges) and can result in accidents or incidents of pollution.
Perspectives
This is the fundamental description for corrosion and surface finishing. We wrote this chapter paper for the readers whose disciplines are different from materials science and engineering.
Professor Hideyuki Kanematsu
National Institute of Technology, Suzuka College
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This page is a summary of: Corrosion and Surface Finishing, January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/978-4-431-55957-3_6.
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