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 …

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 …

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) …

The influence of a thermal cycle fatigue (TCF) loading waveform on cracking behaviors of an
atmospheric plasma-sprayed thermal barrier coating (TBC) system was numerically studied …

Effects of top coat morphology and thickness on thermal fatigue behavior of Thermal Barrier
Coatings (TBC) were investigated in this study. Thermal fatigue tests were conducted on …

The aim of this study is to investigate the failure mechanisms of coin-shaped plasma-
sprayed thermal barrier coatings (TBCs) for gas turbine blades due to cyclic thermal fatigue …

Thermal-barrier coatings (TBCs) are very important ceramic-coating materials due to their
excellent performance at high temperature. The inner zone of the bond-coat is often easily …

Failure of plasma-sprayed thermal barrier coatings (TBCs) is very complicated upon
temperature cycling, therefore, to ascertain the crack propagation behavior is beneficial to …

Two thermal barrier coatings (TBCs), the plasma sprayed (PS) and electron beam-physical
vapor deposition (EB-PVD) coatings were selected to analyze the fatigue life. Firstly, the …

Thick thermal barrier coatings (TBCs), consisting of a CoNiCrAlY bond coat and yttria-
partially stabilized zirconia top coat with different porosity values, were produced by air …