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Remaining Fatigue Life Assessment of Plasma Sprayed Thermal Barrier Coatings

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Ceramic functional coatings are frequently applied to structural materials, covering a wide range of thermomechanical and electrochemical applications. The main limiting feature is their reliability when subjected to cyclic transient thermal stresses. The study described in this article is a continuation of earlier research study focused on acoustic emission (AE) monitoring of the thermomechanical aging effects in ceramic coatings. Here, emphasis is placed on the usefulness of combining AE short-term monitoring with finite element modeling (FEM) to predict the performance of such coatings when subjected to cyclic thermal loads. The FEM study presented in this article is based on a three-dimensional, time-dependent approach, of the stress fields that developed within the coatings during the post-deposition cooling step and the thermal cycling. Experiments were conducted using yttrium-stabilized zirconia (YSZ) and Alumina (Al2O3) ceramic coatings combined with a NiCr-based intermetallic bond coat.

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  1. Centro de Nanociencias y Nanotecnología (CNyN), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ensenada, Mexico

    Philippe Robin

  2. Centre de Recherche en Energie Plasma et Electrochimie (CREPE), Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada

    François Gitzhofer

  3. Sciences des Procédés Céramiques et Traitements de Surface (SPCTS), Université de Limoges, Limoges, France

    Pierre Fauchais

  4. Tekna Plasma Systems Inc., Sherbrooke, Canada

    Maher Boulos

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Robin, P., Gitzhofer, F., Fauchais, P. et al. Remaining Fatigue Life Assessment of Plasma Sprayed Thermal Barrier Coatings. J Therm Spray Tech 19, 911–920 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11666-010-9509-9

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