The ever-increasing demands for higher performance, weight reduction and more
challenging application conditions have been the main driver for substituting steel and cast …

A high power direct diode laser, emitting in the range of near infrared radiation at
wavelength 808–940 nm, was applied to produce a titanium matrix composite on a surface …

Substrates of aluminium alloy 2011 have been plasma nitrided using an inductively coupled
plasma source and then characterised by X-ray diffraction (XRD) and X-ray photoelectron …

In this paper, titanium nitrides were produced on commercially pure titanium samples by
laser nitriding processes, with the goal of improving bio-compatibility and corrosion …

Surface modification is an attractive method to enhance the surface hardness and wear
resistance of titanium. In this paper, a continuous wave 2 kW Nd: YAG laser was used to …

In general, titanium alloys are well known for their good mechanical and biocompatibility
properties, but poor tribological behavior. Among other processes, laser nitriding has proven …

Micro/nano structuring of KrF Excimer laser-irradiated Aluminum (Al) has been correlated
with laser-produced structural and mechanical changes. The effect of non-reactive Argon …

Nitriding is a well known technique to improve properties of materials. The process utilizing
laser contains many different processes like heat transport and melting effects, diffusion and …

The effect of liquid environment (de-ionized water and propanol) on surface, structural and
mechanical properties of femtosecond laser ablated titanium has been investigated. For this …

Recent surface treatment studies show that titanium alloys should have an improved
resistance to frictional wear and fatigue strength limit without any loss of their high corrosion …