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Title: Comparison of Thermal Properties of Thermal Barrier Coating Deposited on IN738 Using Standard Air Plasma Spray with 100HE Plasma Spray System

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OSTI ID:889137
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  1. Southern Univ. and A&M College, Baton Rouge, LA (United States). Dept. of Mechanical Engineering

Thermal barrier coatings (TBCs) have low thermal conductivity values and have a primary benefit of providing an insulating layer that reduces the coated substrate temperature and mitigates the effects of hot streaking or uneven temperature distributions. Thermal conductivity, k, is a thermo-physical property that can be derived from the thermal diffusivity, α, of the specimen. It can be obtained from the formula k = α cp ρ, where cp is specific heat and ρ is the density of the material. Thermal conductivity, k, describes the quantity of heat that passes through a unit area of sample in unit time with a temperature gradient present. This thermal property of TBCs can be measured by flash method in which a nearly instantaneous pulse of energy (usually laser or other discharge source) is input to the frontal surface of a material sample and the temperature changes are measured on back side of sample with and INSb infrared detector as shown in Fig.1. A laser flash test has the advantage of being fast while providing values with excellent accuracy and reproducibility. In this study, an instantaneous triangular heat pulse from a laser heat flash system (FL5000) made by Anter corporation, Pittsburgh, PA was used. The technique satisfies the ASTM E 1461. The test method can measure thermal diffusivity values ranging from 10-7 to 10-3 m2/s from temperatures 75 to 2800 K.

Research Organization:
Southern Univ. and A&M College, Baton Rouge, LA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE; Clean Power and Energy Research Consortium (CPERC) (United States)
DOE Contract Number:
FG52-05N27041
OSTI ID:
889137
Report Number(s):
DOE/NA-27041-2; TRN: US200717%%64
Resource Relation:
Conference: 14. ICCE International Conference on Composites and Nano Engineering, Boulder, CO (United States), 2-8 Jul 2006
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English