Design of Thermal Barrier Coatings

1 Introduction 1.1 Scope and Limitations 2 Background 2.1 Thermal Spraying 2.1.1 Atmospheric Plasma Spraying 2.1.2 High Velocity Oxy-Fuel (HVOF) Spraying 2.1.3 Liquid Feedstock Plasma Spraying 2.2 Thermal Barrier Coatings 2.3 Coating Formation 2.4 Process Parameters 2.5 Coating Materials for TBCs 2.5.1 Topcoat 2.5.2 Bondcoat 2.5.3 Thermally Grown Oxides References 3 Characteristics of TBCs 3.1 Microstructure 3.2 Heat Transfer Mechanism 3.2.1 General Theory 3.2.2 Application to TBCs 3.3 Mechanical Behaviour 3.3.1 Stress Formation 3.3.2 Young's Modulus 3.3.3 Nonlinear Properties 3.4 Interface Roughness 3.4.1 Roughness Relationship with Lifetime 3.4.2 Stress Inversion Theory 3.5 Oxide Formation 3.6 Failure Mechanisms References 4 Experimental Methods 4.1 Microstructure Characterisation 4.2 Thermal Conductivity Measurements 4.3 Young's Modulus Measurements 4.4 Roughness Measurements 4.5 Lifetime Testing References 5 Modelling of Properties of TBCs 5.1 Thermal Conductivity 5.1.1 Analytical Models 5.1.2 Numerical Models 5.2 Young's Modulus 5.2.1 Analytical Models 5.2.2 Numerical Models 5.3 Finite Element Modelling 5.3.1 Basics of FEM and FDM 5.3.2 Image Based Finite Element Model 5.4 Artificial Coating Morphology Generator 5.5 Recent Work References 6 Modelling of Interface Roughness in TBCs 6.1 Simplified Interface Roughness Modelling 6.2 Real Interface Roughness Modelling 6.2.1 Two-Dimensional Approach 6.2.2 Three-Dimensional Approach 6.2.3 Results References 7 Modelling of Oxide Growth in TBCs 7.1 Diffusion-based Modelling 7.1.1 Previous Work 7.1.2 Real Interface Roughness Modelling 7.1.3 Recent Work 7.2 Mixed Oxide Growth References 8 Conclusions - How to Design TBCs? 8.1 Future Work

Mohit comes from Lucknow in India and received his bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering in 2009 from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India. He received his master's degree in mechanical engineering in 2010 and doctoral degree in production technology in 2015 from University West, Sweden. He is currently employed as a senior researcher at University West. His research interests are finite element modelling, plasma spraying and solid oxide fuel cells.