Industrial gas turbine (IGT) manufacturers and maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) personnel are continually seeking new ways to improve the performance and longevity of critical components.

Typical physical-vapor-deposition (PVD) hard coatings are 20 times thinner than a human hair, yet they can drastically improve performance, boost reliability, and extend service lives of tool and ...

The human body is a marvellous system, with completely integrated load-bearing and power transmission systems that are both self-replicating and adaptable to changes in environment, work rates and ...

The problem being addressed by the U.S. Army was that wear and corrosion require the artillery personnel to replace chromium-coated spindles well before they reach their usable end-of-life. The ...

: An example of a physical vapor deposition (PVD) coating is Oerlikon Balzers’ BALINIT C. The coating is a WC/C ductile carbide carbon coating that is highly resistant to adhesive wear (scuffing) in ...

Expanding into new materials is always an interesting way to change up the feel of a classic watch model, and Tag Heuer has done exactly that with the launch of the Carbon Aquaracer in a 41mm ...