Light alloys are predicted to continue to grow in further products and applications. These alloys are used for a wide range of applications, including aerospace, aviation, structural, transportation and marine devices. This lecture will focus on research and development of hybrid high and low voltage coatings for aluminum, titanium and magnesium alloys. Such coatings are essential in order to address the needs of high performance corrosion resistance hybrid materials. An environmental free coating system will be described showing the correlation between coating parameters, materials characterization to electrochemical results
A few tailor-made experimental procedures will be described in different environments under stress and unstressed conditions modeling real life time conditions for magnesium alloys. The research experienced a correlation between the manufactured methods, process parameters, microstructure (SEM), and coating parameters to the electrochemical results
The coating method also took into account practical industrial consumptions in order to be applied within the industry for a variety of applications.
In summary it can be assumed that coatings is one of the best procedures to increase the corrosion resistance of such materials but such coatings should take into account many parameters which some of them will be described within the lecture.