Listing of the organizing committee for the International Thermal Spray Conference 2000.

Listings of the organizing committees and proceedings editors for the International Thermal Spray Conference 2023.

The growth of data generated within thermal spraying is, for many, a daunting business. Yet, this growing resource represents a largely untapped and potentially valuable asset capable of providing “knowledge” rather than just “information”. Many companies already use a range of Web based tools. However, the Web itself is changing and the vision for the future, the “Semantic Web”, is set to revolutionise how business will be done. One important aspect of this Web “future” is that web pages will be greatly enriched and data will have additional information (tags) which help to describe it and more significantly, put the data into a context. This will enable machine readability and the use of query languages to ask direct questions. Following on from ideas introduced at ITSC 2007, a proof of concept demonstrator has been built for thermal spray coatings used in the Maintenance Repair and Overhaul (MRO) of gas turbines. A system has been built which stores and manipulates a range of data including; aircraft deliveries, RSS feeds of aircraft sales, engine types, MRO business details, thermal spray coatings and market dynamics. This paper presents the development of this system and discusses its future potential.

The introduction of new wire arc spraying equipment with chopped power supplies offers many possibilities to improve the wire arc spraying process. These power sources provide higher process stability even at reduced voltages. On the one hand conventional applications can be enhanced and on the other hand new processes can be developed. Due to the high process stability the introduction of additional particles into the atomizing gas stream is possible. This can be applied to produce coatings with a high wear resistance as well as a high surface roughness. A combined technology of particle injection and the productive wire arc spraying process enables the economic production of innovative functional surfaces. In the last years ITSC, the injection of corundum particles had been presented. In this paper further strategies for inserting particles into the gas stream and experimental results are shown for iron based coatings. For the reinforcement different carbides were injected into the atomizing gas stream.

The present work deals with the application to actual in industrial conditions of the promising results of the study on adhesion, as presented at the previous edition of ITSC’2004 in Osaka, Japan. These industrial parts were typical of those produced in workshops for aircraft-aerospace, petro-chemical, printing works industries etc…. Thermal spray processing of industrial parts tested in this study are numerous, primarily air plasma spraying (APS), HVOF and conventional flame spray with or without remelting. Ultrasonic NDT facilities are now installed in an actual industrial workshop and show the reliability of the testing method and related results. For every tested part, digital ultrasonic testing was carried out to be compared to results from conventional adhesion tests according to EN 582 standard. U.T. results were quite in keeping with those from EN 582 testing. However, in addition, ultrasonic testing exhibited the any heterogeneity when existing, (local weak zones) at the coating-substrate interface. This resulted in easy discriminating of adhesive areas from cohesive areas. Results of this work obtained in a real workshop environment leaves promising expectations for ultrasonic testing to meet results from conventional EN 582 adhesion testing when applied to industrially-produced parts. Ultrasonic testing results in a low-cost NDT method which should compete with current high-cost control. Moreover, ultrasonic NDT looks more reliable in so far as the whole part can be controlled due to scanning of the whole surface.

Preface for the International Thermal Spray Conference 2022.

Preface for the International Thermal Spray Conference 2004.

Preface for the International Thermal Spray Conference 2008.

Preface for the International Thermal Spray Conference 2005.

Preface for the International Thermal Spray Conference 2010.

Preface for the International Thermal Spray Conference 2011.

Preface for the International Thermal Spray Conference 2014.

Preface for the International Thermal Spray Conference 2017.

Preface for the International Thermal Spray Conference 2016.

Preface for the International Thermal Spray Conference 2000. Includes a publishing history for proceedings from previous thermal spray conference events.

Preface for the International Thermal Spray Conference 2001. Includes a publishing history for proceedings from previous thermal spray conference events.

Listings of the organizing committee and proceedings editors for the International Thermal Spray Conference 2015.

Preface for the International Thermal Spray Conference 2002. Includes a publishing history for proceedings from previous thermal spray conference events.

Listings of the organizing committees and proceedings editors for the International Thermal Spray Conference 2018.

Listings of the organizing committees and proceedings editors for the International Thermal Spray Conference 2021.