Corrosion Protection, Grinding, Abrasive & Surface Grinding

Surface treatments can extend the performance characteristics by protecting the surface from operating damage and cyclic loads.

These treatments have undergone laboratory and field testing to ensure reliability in extreme conditions to deal with the following failure modes:

Grinding – the grinding action, explains how metal pieces are formed, and covers wheel maintenance and safety.

Surface Grinding – the grinding action provided on the metal surface to make metal pieces smooth.

Abrasive – an abrasive is used to shape or finish a workpiece through rubbing which means polishing it to gain a smooth, reflective surface.

Fatigue – the initiation and growth of cracks can be controlled by the tailored application of sustainable residual compressive stresses.

Fretting – fretting damage potentially leading to fretting fatigue, can be minimized by the protection of the base materials with appropriate coatings and/or altering mating surface contact points and deep residual compressive stresses.

Galling – the adhesion of opposing surfaces when in contact, can be minimized by a coating protection and/or changes in material properties in the near surface area.

Stress corrosion cracking – the removal of surface tensile stresses or reducing them below threshold levels, can eliminate stress corrosion cracking.

Corrosion Protection – protection of the surface by coatings and, where fatigue can result, in combination with deep residual compressive stresses are both essential to minimize this problem.

Wear – wear can be lessened by reducing friction characteristics and/or increasing or altering mating hardness differentials.