Air-plasma-sprayed (APS) thermal barrier coatings (TBCs) are widely used for heat
insulation in gas turbines. As reported by many studies in this field, the lifetime of as-sprayed …

Thermal barrier coatings (TBCs) produced by an air plasma-spray (APS) process have been
widely used as hot section components in gas turbines for thermal insulation and oxidation …

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 …

Plasma-sprayed thermal barrier coatings (TBCs) are applied to protect the blades of a gas
turbine system from high-temperature gas and to lower the surface temperature of the …

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 …

Ceramic thermal barrier coatings (TBCs) are increasingly applied to enhance the
performance of advanced gas turbine engines. However, the delamination cracks initiated in …

The coalescence induced by the propagation of inter-lamella and intra-lamellar cracks in
thermal barrier coatings (TBCs) by atmospheric plasma spraying (APS) is the root cause of …

To investigate the possible failure modes of the thermal barrier coating (TBC) used to protect
the scramjet combustion chamber, the local heating via laser beam irradiation was utilized to …

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 …

The interface morphology of the bonding layer has a considerable effect on the damage and
failure of sandwich-structured thermal barrier coatings. This work investigated the …