Coating of carbon fiber parts

[gp1nick]

Hi

referring to this article, have we a proven technology to do that now, or it still is an academic work?

I'm interested to make a carbon fiber tube with ceramic coat on the external surface, then grinded/lapped to reach a good surface roughness, cylindricity and fixed tolerance

is there a way to do it?

many thanks

[Vadim Verlotski]

(07-30-2019 05:21 PM)gp1nick Wrote:  Hi

referring to this article, have we a proven technology to do that now, or it still is an academic work?

I'm interested to make a carbon fiber tube with ceramic coat on the external surface, then grinded/lapped to reach a good surface roughness, cylindricity and fixed tolerance

is there a way to do it?

many thanks

There are already industrial applications of coated carbon tubes. You can, for example, contact this company:
https://www.inometa.de/en/home.html

[loriolo]

Hi Nick
There are many coating method in order to do this application, and is normally used in several applications, like fuselage coatings on aircraft applications, both as electro wave shielding or freeting, special artistical bronze, brass or copper coatings on fiber glass or carbon panels or concrete, etc., this coatings could be done by several technologies like Wire HVOF, Ethanol HVOF, with APS is possible too, but as the spray temperature is very high, It take to much time to spray, and is necessary to maintain a very low coating temperature, I did many coatins for special applications on graphite rollers.