Stabilized zirconia coatings are used as thermal barrier coatings (TBCs) because of their
ability to improve the performance and efficiency of gas turbine engines by allowing higher …

Thermal barrier coatings consisting of a NiCrAlY bond coating and a 1.4 mm thick partially
stabilised zirconia top coating were air plasma sprayed onto grit blasted nickel-base …

Advanced ceramic multilayered coatings are commonly used as protective coatings for
engine metal components to improve performance, eg thermal barrier coatings (TBCs) …

The strain dependency of the stiffness of bonded and free-standing thermal barrier coatings
(TBCs) was analyzed using four point bending. The deformation in top and side face of the …

During thermal cyclic loading, plasma-sprayed thermal barrier coatings (TBCs) often show
failure within the top coat close to the interface. In all cases this results from crack …

It has been acknowledged that stresses within a thermal barrier coating (TBC) and its
durability are significantly affected by the coating interfaces. This paper presents a finite …

Thermal barrier coating (TBC) specimens have been prepared by plasma spraying. A
vacuum plasma spray (VPS) MCrAlY bond coat and atmospheric plasma spray (APS) …

A widely used method to produce thermal barrier coating (TBC) systems is the vacuum
plasma spraying of a highly dense bondcoat layer with a defined surface roughness and the …

A Finite Element Model (FEM) was developed to evaluate the stresses induced by the
thermal cycling in a typical plasma-sprayed thermal barrier coating system (TBCs). The …

In gas turbines and diesel engines, there is a demand for thick thermal barrier coatings
(TTBCs) due to the increased process combustion temperatures. Unfortunately, the …