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Nickel-diamond coatings enhance load transmission. (Advanced in Automotive Materials).
Advanced Materials & Processes, July, 2002
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A trend in automotive powertrain design is to reduce both weight and size while increasing power-to-weight ratio. This taxes torque transmission joints such as those between clutches and transmissions and between timing, balancing, and auxiliary drive attachments to crankshafts and camshafts.
Powertrain joints generally are limited by dimensions, coefficient of friction, and contact pressure. Fine-grain, nickel-diamond composite coatings developed by Wacker Ceramics, Wacker-Chemie GmbH, Kempten, Germany, are said to provide a solution. Tests at the Technical University of Chemnitz ...
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