Awards

The best presentations and posters were recognized by awards.

The jury:

• Professor Robert VASSEN (Forschungszentrum, Jülich, Germany)
• Professor Enrique SANCHEZ (Institute of Ceramic Technology, Spain)
• Professor Petri VUORISTO (Tampere University of Technology, Finland)
• Professor Lech PAWLOWSKI (University of Limoges, France)

Presentation’s Awards were attributed to:

1. First Best Presentation:

   Nicholas Curry — University West (Sweden)
   Effect of Bond Coat Surface Roughness on the Structure of Axial Suspension Plasma Spray Thermal Barrier Coatings

2. Second Best Presentation:

   Geoffrey Darut — Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard (France)
   Steel coating application for engine block bores by Plasma Transferred Wire Arc spraying process

3. Third Best Presentation:

   R. Pileggi — Centro Sviluppo Materiali (Italy)
   Tribo-corrosion behaviour of chromium carbide based coatings deposited by HVOF

Posters’s Awards were attributed to:

1. First Best Poster:

   Frédéric Sarret — CEA (France)
   Numerical simulation of unsteady ArH2 plasma flow impacting a moving substrate

2. Second Best Poster:

   Josep Picas — Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Spain)
   Bi-layer HVOF coating system for high-temperature applications

3. Third Best Poster:

   Grzegorz Moskal — Silesian University of Technology (Poland)
   Microstructure and thermal properties of DCL thermal barrier coatings of RE2Zr2O7/8YSZ type