18th International research and practice conference
«Hardening, coating and repair technologies:
Theory and Practice»

About the conference

The 14th International research and practice conference (experience exchange)

“Hardening, coating and repair technologies: theory and practice”

17-20 April 2012, Sankt-Petersburg

The conference will examine the following hardening, restoration and repair techniques:

TROUBLESHOOTING, FLAW DETECTION, WASHING AND CLEANING

- vibration monitoring, troubleshooting, alignment and balance adjustment systems;
- design and equipment troubleshooting using acoustic emission technique;
- ultrasonic washing and cleaning, abrasive jet machining;
- removal of old paint coats using organic solvents.

TASK GEOMETRY RECONSTRUCTION

- thermal spraying (flame, plasma, wire arc, detonation, HVOF), gas dynamic cold spraying;
- weld deposition techniques (plasma, vibroarc, using flux, induction hard-facing and others);
- repair welding (using electrodes, wire, argon, CO2);
- electro-contact and induction powder coating;
- cold welding using metal-polymer composites Belzona, Durmetal, Diamant, Loctite, Leo and others.

SURFACE HARDENING AND RECOVERY OF SURFACE PROPERTIES

- final plasma hardening, plasma modification, high-frequency plasma hardening;
- spark hardening and ultrasonic spark alloying;
- vacuum condensation deposition techniques;
- laser, electron beam, torch hardening;
- using highly ordered carbon clusters (fullerenes);
- repairing friction parts of machines and mechanisms using the RVS technique, using fluorosurfactants, epilamisation;
- low-temperature case hardening;
- sherardising;
- micro-arc oxide coating;
- surface modification using mineral compounds, products SURM, NIOD, RIMET, RESURS, FENOM, MMT, HADO, FORSAN, FIAL, ZHIVOY METALL, ENERGIYA-3000, PRACTEX, ORMEX, RECAVERY, STRIBOIL, REAGENT-2000, SANTITEC-RD and others;
- hardening by plastic deformation of surface (roller or ball burnishing, vibroburnishing, smoothing, electromechanical treatment, hydroabrasive hardening, bead hardening);
- explosive hardening;
- electro-mechanical chrome plating technique;
- low-frequency vibration treatment;
- thermoacoustic treatment of metals and alloys;
- case hardening (carburising, nitriding, boriding, cyaniding, carbonitriding and others);
- electroplating (chrome plating, nickel plating, electrophoresis, nickel-phosphorus plating, boron plating, chrome-boron plating and others);
- magnetic, magnetic pulse treatment and cryogenic hardening techniques;
- chemical deposition with gas phase (TiC, TiN, Ti(C,N), Al2O3 sputtering).

MECHANICAL TREATMENT OF EXISTING COATINGS

- non-abrasive ultrasonic final polishing;
- magnetic abrasive machining and ultrasonic abrasive machining.

COLOURING AND CONSERVATION

- using ZVES, ZINOL, ZINGA compounds for cold galvanising of steels;
- using MIFOL inhibitor, cathodic protection and protection coatings;
- coating using tribostatic and electrostatic methods.