Technik und Potenziale des Verschleißschutzes mittels thermisch gespritzter Beschichtungen

Technology and Potential of Wear Resistant Thermal Spray Coatings Thermal spray technologies are used for coating of component parts with a large variety of materials, e. g. for protection against wear and corrosion. During the last 20 years, the comparatively novel processes in thermal spraying have been established in surface technologies and will increasingly develop their market. Continuous equipment developments as well as new technologies for thermal spraying guarantee increasing importance of this technology, and will have a sustainable effect on industries with typical wear and corrosion‐caused problems. Therefore, thermal spray coated components possess an outstanding suitability and a high application potential for the construction of stone machining machines / plants and the mining industry (as well as associated vehicle and equipment technology), which still has hardly been developed in the area of mining industry and stone machining. A short introduction of thermal spray technology and processes and an overview is given for typical applications and already established coating solutions besides some recent examples from the area of stone machining and mining. This article shows the potential of thermally sprayed coatings as solutions for the stone machining and mining industry.