Flexural Testing Of Weld Site And Hvof Coating Characteristics

Materials Forming, Machining and Tribology Bekir Sami Yilbas Iyad Al-Zaharnah Ahmet Sahin Flexural Testing of Weld Site and HVOF Coating Characteristics Materials Forming, Machining and Tribology Series editor J. Paulo Davim, Aveiro, Portugal For further volumes: http://www.springer.com/series/11181 Bekir Sami Yilbas Iyad Al-Zaharnah Ahmet Sahin • Flexural Testing of Weld Site and HVOF Coating Characteristics 123 Bekir Sami Yilbas Department of Mechanical Engineering King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals Dhahran Saudi Arabia Iyad Al-Zaharnah Ahmet Sahin KFUPM Dhahran Saudi Arabia ISSN 2195-0911 ISSN 2195-092X (electronic) ISBN 978-3-642-54976-2 ISBN 978-3-642-54977-9 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-54977-9 Springer Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London Library of Congress Control Number: 2014942065 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. Exempted from this legal reservation are brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis or material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the Copyright Law of the Publisher’s location, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Permissions for use may be obtained through RightsLink at the Copyright Clearance Center. Violations are liable to prosecution under the respective Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. While the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication, neither the authors nor the editors nor the publisher can accept any legal responsibility for any errors or omissions that may be made. The publisher makes no warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com) Preface Defect sites can be created in solid substrates when subjected to a deformation or a thermal distortion and the property variation occurs in defected regions, such as elastic module, density, Poisson’s ratio variations in the heat affected zone of the welded, or locally heat treated sites in the solid substrates. In addition, during thermal processing, the properties of the substrate material change because of the temperature dependence. Flexural motion of the substrate material, subjected to thermal processing, provides useful information about the level disto