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Tuesday
• Course Detail
Pretreatment for electroless nickel: general concepts:
- Overview of the processes needed to prepare metals for plating
- Importance of solution control
- Masking as a pretreatment step
- Coating defects as a pretreatment problem
Typical applications:
- Historic and existing applications
- Why they have been successful
- New emerging applications
Physical and mechanical properties of Ni-P coatings:
- Different types of electroless baths and their deposits
- Importance of deposit composition
- Metallurgical structure of different coatings
- Physical and mechanical properties
- Hardness and wear properties
- Frictional properties of different coatings
Effect of electroless nickel on steel:
- Effect of electroless nickel on steel
- Effect on the fatigue strength of steels
- Effect of phosphorus on embrittlement of welds
Fixturing for electroless nickel plating:
- Ways to efficiently support parts for plating
