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 ...

Physical vapour deposition (PVD) is fundamentally a vaporisation coating technique, involving transfer of material on an atomic level. It is an alternative process to electroplating The process is ...