Nanomechanics for Coatings and Engineering Surfaces

Professor Ben Beake worked at the Universities of Hull, Nottingham and UMIST after a degree and PhD (1994) in Chemistry both from the University of Exeter. He joined Micro Materials as an Applications Scientist in 1999 and was promoted to Director of Materials Research in April 2006. He is a Fellow of both the Institute of Nanotechnology and the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3), as well as a past chair of the IOP Tribology Group. Ben is currently a Visiting Professor in Mechanical Engineering, University of Leeds, and the University of Huddersfield. He is very active in collaborative research with other NanoTest users with over 100 published papers in: Developing new nano-mechanical test methods Applying them to study mechanical and tribological properties of thin films and coatings Environmental sensitivity in polymers Professor Tomasz Liskiewicz is Head of Department of Engineering at Manchester Metropolitan University. He has over 20 years of international academic and engineering experience from leading research institutions in the UK, France, Canada, and Poland. His research interests focus on surface engineering and tribology of functional surfaces, with a particular interest in fretting wear phenomena. His work has been published in such journals as Applied Surface Engineering; Tribology International; Surface and Coatings Technology; Wear and Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research. He has presented at an array of international conferences and has been involved in fretting research for 20 years, with a main focus on wear processes. He previously spent 2 years in Alberta, Canada, working as a Senior Scientist at Charter Coating, leading material testing projects for the oil and gas industry. He was elected Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in London in 2014 and is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics in London where he acts as Chair of the Tribology Group Committee.

• Section 1: Introduction1. Development of nanomechanical testing2. Development of additional nano-scale wear test techniques3. Linking coating mechanical properties and wear resistanceSection 2: Experimental Methods/Techniques4. Nanoindentation - strategies for reliable measurements on coated systems5. Indentation Energy-based Analysis Methods6. Nano-scratch testing7. Reciprocating Nano- and Micro-scale Wear Testing8. AFM nano-wear9. Nano-impact testing10. Micro and Nano-mechanics to understand the effects of residual stress on a coating's performance11. Multi-sensing Approaches12. High temperature testingSection 3: Modelling Approaches13. Analytical methods14. Numerical simulation and Finite Element Analysis15. Atomistic and Molecular DynamicsSection 4: Coating and Engineering Surfaces: design strategies and industrial applications16. H/E Revisited17. Thin protective coatings on silicon for MEMS18. DLC on steel for automotive applications19. High speed machining20. Nuclear materials21. Aerospace coatings22. Solid lubricants23. Nanomechanics of Tribologically Transformed Surfaces24. Microtribology Experiments for Hard MetalsSection 5: Summary25. Trends and future directions