Are you an EPFL student looking for a semester project?
Work with us on data science and visualisation projects, and deploy your project as an app on top of GraphSearch.
Concept
Surface finishing
Summary
Surface finishing is a broad range of industrial processes that alter the surface of a manufactured item to achieve a certain property. Finishing processes may be employed to: improve appearance, adhesion or wettability, solderability, corrosion resistance, tarnish resistance, chemical resistance, wear resistance, hardness, modify electrical conductivity, remove burrs and other surface flaws, and control the surface friction. In limited cases some of these techniques can be used to restore original dimensions to salvage or repair an item. An unfinished surface is often called mill finish.
Surface finishing processes can be categorized by how they affect the workpiece:
Removing or reshaping finishing
Adding or altering finishing
Mechanical processes may also be categorized together because of similarities the final surface finish.
Blanching
Burnishing
Calendering
Case hardening
Ceramic glaze
Cladding
Corona treatment
Diffusion processes:
Carburizing
Nitriding
Electroless plating
Electroplating
Galvanizing
Gilding
Glazing
Knurling
Painting
Passivation/Conversion coating
Anodizing
Bluing
Chromate conversion coating
Phosphate conversion coating
Parkerizing
Plasma electrolytic oxidation
Peening
Shot peening
Laser peening
Pickling
Plasma spraying
Powder coating
Thin-film deposition
Chemical vapor deposition (CVD)
Electroplating
Electrophoretic deposition (EPD)
Mechanical plating
Sputter deposition
Physical vapor deposition (PVD)
Vacuum plating
Vitreous enamel
Abrasive blasting
Sandblasting
Burnishing
Chemical-mechanical planarization (CMP)
Electropolishing
Electrochemical machining
Flame polishing
Gas cluster ion beam
Grinding
Industrial etching
Laser ablation
Laser engraving
Linishing
Magnetic field-assisted finishing
Mass finishing processes
Tumble finishing
Vibratory finishing
Peening
Shot peening
Laser peening
Pickling
Polishing
Buffing
Lapping
Superfinishing
Mechanical finishing processes include:
Abrasive blasting
Burnishing
Grinding
Honing
Mass finishing
Tumble finishing
Vibratory finishing
Polishing
Buffing
Lapping
The use of abrasives in metal polishing results in what is considered a "mechanical finish".
Official source
About this result
This page is automatically generated and may contain information that is not correct, complete, up-to-date, or relevant to your search query. The same applies to every other page on this website. Please make sure to verify the information with EPFL's official sources.