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ndustrial News CTSR Welcomes Three New Member Companies to Its Research Consortium Stony Brook UniversityÕs Center for Thermal Spray Research (CTSR) is proud to announce the addition of three new member companies to its Consortium on Thermal Spray Technology: Northwest Mettech Corporation, Stellite Coatings, and VTT Manufacturing Institute, Finland. These companies bring a wealth of industrial expertise to the group in the arenas of equipment manufacturing, coating application, and research/development. The Consortium on Thermal Spray Technology was founded in 2001 on the premise that thermal spray (TS) technology offered a perfect platform for precompetitive, collaborative projects between end-users (OEMS), applicators, material and equipment developers, and leading research institutions. The Consortium was a logical evolution from a $10 M National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded Materials Research Science and Engineering Center program, which allowed significant enhancements in fundamental science and applied engineering of TS technology. The Consortium has not only enabled knowledge transfer from the Center to the industry but, through combined resources and expertise, the group has tackled issues of material design, process diagnostics, optimization, and reliability.
Major outcomes of the consortium efforts include development of advanced process maps, new methods of coating characterization, and an integrated approach to process and materials development. The initial work focused on thermal barrier coatings (TBCs), and more recently the work has been expanded to include high-velocity oxyfuel (HVOF) processing of cemented carbides and other systems. Future work will continue to develop these themes into expanded materials applications and also to link the process science efforts to performance and lifetime predictability of high-temperature ceramics including TBCs, fuel cells, and abradables. Close to 20 companies participate in the Consortium including General Electric, Siemens, Honeywell, Caterpillar, Mitsubishi Power Systems, Solar Turbines, Plasma Technology Inc., Army Research Lab, Tinker Air Force Base, Kennametal, BASF (formerly Engelhard), Osram Sylvania, Praxair, St. Gobain, Sulzer Metco, and Applied Materials. The Consortium also provides a mechanism to access federal research programs that are of joint interest between company partners and the university and allows exploration of future novel TS applications, such as in functional surfaces, electronics, and multilayers. Access to cutting edge advanced characterization facilities is also provided through the network of
premier research institutions that partner with the CTSR. The annual research agenda is set by the membership and the Center based on relevant themes and capabilities, and meetings are held throughout the year to keep the group up to date on status and achievements made. Annual training workshops and classes are also held to keep the group abreast of the latest advances being made not only in TS, but also in surface engineering in genera
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