Case Study
Hyperformance Coatings
Specification Alphatek are a coatings company that applies wear, corrosion, heat or electrically resistive coatings, supplying to many different industries. The quality of their plasma coatings are completely dependent on adhesion to their substrates, and must conform to industry standard ASTM C633. The requirement was to determine the force required to pull test samples of coating off. Two metal rods with coated surfaces are stuck together with