SIO is main sponsor of and exhibitor at the ICMCTF 2011

The International Conference on Metallurgical Coatings and Thin Films 2011 (ICMCTF 2011, avs.org/conferences/icmctf/default .asp) in San Diego, California, is sponsored by the Saxonian Insitute of Surface Mechanics (SIO, www.siomec.de). This well-known conference has seven world-class technical symposia in the field of thin film engineering and characterization. More than 700 attendees learn about the latest research results on new coating materials and coating processes, film growth, tribology, physical characterization, as well as modelling & simulation each year.

The SIO sponsors the conference with its symposia and exhibition, but particularly the Bunshah Award prize, several raffle prizes, and the introductory evening reception.

Some very interesting talks will be given by researchers of the SIO or its partners:

- Talk B1-1-9: "Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Hard Ceramic Coatings Deposited by Arc Plasma Acceleration Process", V.N. Khominich, Tuesday, 3 May 2011, 10:40am
- Talk B6-1-12: "Simulation of a Variety of Applications for Complex Coating Structures", N. Bierwisch, Wednesday, 4 May 2011, 11:40am
- Talk B6-2-8: "Application-Driven Design of Wear-Resistant Coatings by Means of an Integrated Multi-Scale Coating Design Tool", M. Fuchs, Wednesday, 4 May 2011, 3:50pm
- Talk E2-1-3: "Time Resolved Mechanical Surface Testing and Subsequent Physical Analysis", N. Schwarzer, Thursday, 5 May 2011, 8:40am
- Talk E2-1-7: "Investigation of the Mechanical Properties of DLC-Coatings by Means of Nanoindentation and It's Modelling", A. Gies, Thursday, 5 May 2011, 10:00am
- Talk E2-1-9: "Correcting Time Dependent Displacement Effects in Nanoindentation Analysis", M.I. Davies, Thursday, 5 May 2011, 10:40am
- Poster TSP-10: "Why Taking Creep Material Behavior Into Account is of Great Importance", P. Heuer-Schwarzer, Thursday, 5 May 2011, 5:00pm
- Talk E2-3-1: "Optimization of the Scratch Test for Specific Coating Designs", G. Favaro, Friday, 6 May 2011, 8:00am

Additionally, an two-day industrial exhibition with more than 40 exhibitors shows cutting-edge technology and materials. The SIO is going to present the state-of-the-art in physical evaluation of indentations measurements and scratch tests on joint booth #303 with CSM Instruments (http://www.csm-instruments.com). This year our exhibition is focused on obtaining generic mechanical material paramters by physical evaluation of appropriate contact measurements.

The Saxonian Institute of Surface Mechanics (SIO) is a private modern research and service institute, which is specialized in mechanical and tribological characterization and optimization of arbitrary structured surfaces (e.g. nano coatings or human-compatible coatings etc.). These covers also the large topic of simulation of real loading problems in extreme application situations. SIO does its own research as well as co-operative research together with well-known universities worldwide. These research activities are mainly funded by rendering corresponding services and selling software to companies (e.g. in the sector of surface coating processing and surface treatment).

Saxonian Institute of Surface Mechanics - SIO
Mr. Marcus Fuchs
Tankow 2
18569 Ummanz
Germany
e-mail: press@siomec.de
web: www.siomec.de
tel.: +49 3725 778311

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