Goal: Develop and evaluate wear- and corrosion- resistant coating-substrate systems.

Adherent, fused coating	Significantly Reduced Coating Porosity

Benefits:

• Eliminates energy intensive and costly cladding
  processes
• Reduced Operating Costs
• Increased Energy Efficiency
  - Heat input is tailored using localized heating sufficient to fuse /bond coatings to substrates
• Rapid, high flux processing heats large surface
  areas and produce well-adhered, metallurgically
  fused coatings

Accomplishments:

• HDI processing eliminated porosity in thermally sprayed steel coatings
• HDI produces adherent, fused suspension coatings
• Developed experimental model that predicts thermal flux and processing parameters to
  enhance wear and corrosion resistant coatings