Effects of high pressure water jet on aluminum surfaces prior to thermal spray coating

<p>Most thermal spray coating processes can be divided into three sub-processes; substrate surface preparation, the thermal spray operation and a post-coating surface finishing operation such as honing or grinding. Reliable and robust surface preparation is needed to guarantee maximum coating...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Accardo, Mario G.
Other Authors: Industrial and Systems Engineering
Format: Dissertation
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/45227
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-10222009-124845/