MECH 3503 - Surface Processing Operations

  1. why do parts need to be clean
    • Prepare surface for subsequent processing, such
    • as a coating application or adhesive bonding
    • ▪ Improve hygiene conditions for workers and
    • customers
    • ▪ Remove contaminants that might chemically
    • react with the surface
    • ▪ Enhance appearance and performance of the
    • product
  2. chemical cleaning and mechanical cleaning.

    name chemical cleaning methods
    • ▪ Alkaline cleaning - uses alkali to remove oils, grease, etc. most widely used. immersion or spraying followed by water rinse 
    • ▪ Emulsion cleaning - organic solvents (oils) in an aqueous solution (soaps). must have alkaline cleaning 
    • ▪ Solvent cleaning - chemicals that dissolve soils - hand wiping, immersion, spraying, vapor degreasing (hot vapors of chlorinated)
    • ▪ Acid cleaning - use acid solutions conbimed with water miscible solvents - soaking, spraying, manual brushing. acid pickling is more severe
    • ▪ Ultrasonic cleaning - mechanical agitation of cleaning fluid by high frequency vibrations to cause cavitation
  3. chemical cleaning and mechanical cleaning.

    name mechanical cleaning methods
    • Blast finishing - high velocity impact of particulate media to clean and finish a surface - sand blasting
    • ▪ Shot peening - high velocity stream of small cast steel pellets directed at metallic surface to cold work and induce compressive stresses into surface layers; used to improve fatigue strength of metal, different than blast finishing
    • ▪ Mass finishing processes - tumbling, vibratory finishing; mixing action in a container, might be with an abrasive
  4. if we wanna impregnate the surface with foreign atoms, how!
    alter surface chemistry

    diffusion - diffusing atoms of a diff material into surface at high temperatures. dont to increase corrosion resistance/oxidation resistacnce

    ion implantation - high energy beam of ionized particles, can do in low temp. used to fabricate semiconductor devices
  5. how to plate. what processes are involved
    • 1. electroplating - metal ions in an electrolyte are deposited onto a cathode workpart

    apply faraday's law, C is the amount of plating material deposited onto cathodic workpart per electric charge

    • 2. electroforming - electrolytic deposition of metal onto a pattern until required thickness is achieved, pattern is then removed. parts are thicker
    • 3. electroless plating - all chemical, no electric current
    • 4. hot dipping** - metal substrate is immersed in a molten bath of a second metal. second metal coats the first for corrosion protectio (Zn, Al, Sn, St). galvanizing, aluminizing, tinning
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MECH 3503 - Surface Processing Operations
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