The temperature distribution in plasma-sprayed thermal-barrier coatings during crack propagation and coalescence

  • Hui Dong
  • , Yan Han
  • , Yong Zhou
  • , Xiao Li
  • , Jian Tao Yao
  • , Yan Li

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Abstract

A Finite-Element Model (FEM) for thermal-barrier coatings was employed to elaborate the temperature distribution on yttria-stabilized zirconia (YSZ) free surface during cracks coalescing, then the influence of sintering of YSZ induced by heat-transfer overlapping on energy release rate was quantificationally evaluated. A three-dimensional model including three layers was fabricated. Two types of cracks, with and without depth variations in YSZ coating, were introduced into the model, respectively. The temperature rise of YSZ coating over the crack is independent of each other at the beginning of crack propagation. As crack distance shortens, the independent temperature-rise regions begin to overlap, while maximum temperature is still located at the crack center before crack coalescence. The critical distance that the regions of temperature rise, just overlapping, is the sum of half lengths of two coalescing cracks (i.e., a1 + a2), which is independent of cracking path. The maximum temperature in YSZ sharply increases once cracks coalesce. Compared with one delamination crack, the effective energy-release rate induced by heat-transfer overlapping increases in the range of 0.2%-15%, depending on crack length and crack distance, which is on some level comparable to that of deterioration of thermal expansion misfit induced by temperature jump between crack faces.

Original languageEnglish
Article number311
JournalCoatings
Volume8
Issue number9
DOIs
StatePublished - 2018

Keywords

  • Crack propagation
  • Cracking path
  • Plasma spraying
  • Temperature distribution
  • Thermal-barrier coatings (TBC)
  • YSZ sintering

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