ICMCTF 2012! - CD-Lab Application Oriented Coating Development
ICMCTF 2012! - CD-Lab Application Oriented Coating Development
ICMCTF 2012! - CD-Lab Application Oriented Coating Development
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<strong>ICMCTF</strong> <strong>2012</strong> Focused Topic Sessions<br />
Monday, April 23, <strong>2012</strong>, 12:15 – 1:15 pm Pacific Salon 1-2<br />
<strong>Coating</strong> Quality Control Solutions<br />
Nicholas Randall, Gregory Favato, and Bo Shou<br />
For more than 30 years, CSM Instruments has been developing dedicated instruments for measuring the mechanical<br />
properties of PVD and CVD coatings. The Revetest scratch tester has become the industry standard for measuring<br />
the adhesion and scratch resistance of hard coatings. With our extensive experience gained over the years, we have<br />
recently developed a new line of instruments which are intended for routine Quality Control (QC) inspection of<br />
hard coatings. Such machines are affordable, robust, and simple to operate, therefore allowing even the smallest<br />
coating manufacturer to be able to quantify coating mechanical properties to standard methods (ISO, ASTM, JIS,<br />
etc.).<br />
CSM Instruments has also worked tirelessly to increase the sensitivity and resolution of our already industry leading<br />
instrumentation. This can best be seen by looking at the development of the new Nanoindentation Tester 2 (NHT2)<br />
and the Nanotribometer 2 (NTR2). These instruments allow for more accurate measurement of hardness and frictional<br />
properties respectively by not only increasing the resolution of measurement but also by becoming a more<br />
user-friendly measurement platform.<br />
This tutorial will focus on our most recent innovations in the indentation, scratch, and tribology testing of thin films<br />
and coatings. Specific focus will be placed on recent research into the optimization of the progressive load scratch<br />
test for investigating the mechanical integrity of hard coatings. Based on nanoindentation measurements obtained<br />
from a coating-substrate system, the scratch test can be dimensioned with respect to load range and indenter geometry.<br />
The measured data from this scratch test is used to simulate spatial stress profiles and to calculate the von<br />
Mises stress characteristics and the maximum tensile stresses in the scratch direction. This can increase sensitivity<br />
of the test for specific depth regions in the coating and allow improved analysis of critical interfaces, transition<br />
layers and surface-near substrate regions.<br />
FOOD & REFRESHMENTS WILL BE PROVIDED<br />
VISIT BOOTH #203<br />
Monday, April 23, <strong>2012</strong>, 5:30 – 6:30 pm Royal Palm 1-3<br />
VAMAS TWA22 Annual General Meeting<br />
Mechanical Property Measurements of Thin Films and <strong>Coating</strong>s<br />
Nigel Jennett 1 , Nicholas Randall 2 , Junhee Hahn 3<br />
1National Physical <strong>Lab</strong>oratory, UK<br />
2 3 CSM Instruments Inc., Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science<br />
This is an open meeting that will report on the projects undertaken by VAMAS Technical Working Area 22 in<br />
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