In order to clarify the thermal and/or mechanical failure behavior of the plasma sprayed
thermal barrier coating (TBC) system in connection with their coating characteristics …

In order to clarify qualitatively and quantitatively the failure mechanism of plasma-sprayed
thermal barrier coating (TBC) systems from the microstructural viewpoint, in situ observation …

In order to evaluate the durability of plasma sprayed thermal barrier coating (TBC) systems
with different coating characteristics such as the coating defect structures and interfacial …

In situ observation of the mechanical failure behavior was conducted for different kinds of the
plasma sprayed thermal barrier coating (TBC) systems by means of an optical microscopy …

Thermal fatigue and isothermal oxidation tests of a plasma sprayed thermal barrier coatings
have been carried out. The experimental results indicated that micro-cracking as the fatigue …

The hot-end components of gas turbine engines in the serviced condition usually suffer from
the thermal cycle loading effect. Thermal barrier coating (TBCs) have been used as a …

A durability testing method under thermo-mechanical stress for thermal barrier coatings
(TBC) specimens was designed by a combination of an electric furnace and a tensile testing …

The delamination resistance in a plasma-sprayed thermal barrier coating (TBC) system was
evaluated by means of a modified four-point bending test. In this work, in order to study the …

Failure behavior of an air plasma sprayed thermal barrier coating (TBC) system was
investigated under in-phase (IP) and out-of-phase (OP) thermomechanical fatigue (TMF) …

This work investigates the failure mechanism of an air plasma spraying (APS) thermal
barrier coatings (TBCs) with various bond coat (BC) surface toughness under constant …