Innovative technologies for improving surface properties of metallic used in automobile production – TIMAT-AUTO

Funding agency:  PNCDI II - CNMP, Project no. 71- 038/2007

Coordinator: Pitesti University – Research Centre for Advanced Materials - UPIT-CCMA

Project leader: Catalin DUCU

Partners:

P1. National Institute for Research and Development in Optoelectronics - INOE2000 

Partner project manager Dr. Viorel Braic

P2. CERCETARE DEZVOLTARE PENTRU INGINERIE ELECTRICÃ, ICPE – CA BUCURESTI

Partner project manager Eng. Iulian Iordache

P3. National Institute for Lasers, Plasma and Radiation Physics - INFLPR, Magurele,

Partner project manager Prof. Dr. Ion Mihailescu

P4. Nuclear Research Institute - ICN Pitesti

Partner project manager Dr. Ion Iosub

P5. Automobile DACIA SA, Pitesti

Partner project manager Eng. Ionut Darie

 

                Objective

New materials with low wear and low friction properties

 

Specific objectives for INOE 2000:

v  Competencies in developing custom-made systems for coatings deposition;

v  Surface treatment of specific bulk alloys enabling low wear and low friction

v  Test capacities for coatings characterization

 

Results:

 

                        Schematic view and image of the magnetron sputtering deposition system

 

 

 

Tribological coatings:  TiAlNbCrYC, TiAlZrCN, Ti-Al-C-N:H, Ti-Nb-C-N:H, Ti-Zr-C-N:H, and multilayers: TiSiN/Ti and TiSiN/Cu

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Text Box: Wear tracks on TiAlCrNbYC films: Carbon content is increasing from up to down.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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                     Surface profiler – Dektak 150  (Veeco)                                                          AFM – Innova (Veeco)

 

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Diffractometer MiniFlex II (Rigaku)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Papers published and presented at international conferences

  1. Characteristics of arc plasma deposited TiAlZrCN coatings, M. Balaceanu, V. Braic, A. Kiss, C.N. Zoita, A. Vladescu, M. Braic, I. Tudor, A. Popescu, R. Ripeanu, C. Logofatu, C.C. Negrila, Surface and Coatings Technology, 202 (2008) 3981-3987, doi: 10.1016/j.surfcoat.2008.02.005
  2. Tribological behavior of TiSiN/Ti and TiSiN/Cu multilayer coatings, I. Tudor, A. Popescu, R.G. Ripeanu, A.C. Drumeanu, V. Braic, M. Balaceanu, A. Vladescu, M. Braic, Journal of the Balkan Tribological Association, 15 (2009) 156-162
  3. Characteristics of Ti-Nb, Ti-Zr and Ti-Al containing hydrogenated carbon nitride films, M. Balaceanu, V. Braic, M. Braic, A. Vladescu, C.E.A. Grigorescu, E. Grigore, R. Ripeanu, Solid State Sciences, 11 (2009) 1773-1777, doi:10.1016/j.solidstatesciences.2008.12.001
  4. Characteristics of (TiAlCrNbY)C films deposited by reactive magnetron sputtering, M.Braic, V.Braic, M.Balaceanu, C.N.Zoita, Surf. Coat.Technol. 204 (2010) 2010-2014