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Title: Apparatus for determining past-service conditions and remaining life of thermal barrier coatings and components having such coatings

Abstract

An apparatus for determining past-service conditions and/or remaining useful life of a component of a combustion engine and/or a thermal barrier coating ("TBC") of the component comprises a radiation source that provides the exciting radiation to the TBC to excite a photoluminescent ("PL") material contained therein, a radiation detector for detecting radiation emitted by the PL material, and means for relating a characteristic of an emission spectrum of the PL material to the amount of a crystalline phase in the TBC, thereby inferring the past-service conditions or the remaining useful life of the component or the TBC.

Inventors:
 [1];  [1];  [1];  [2];  [3];  [4]
  1. Niskayuna, NY
  2. Clifton Park, NY
  3. Delmar, NY
  4. Rexford, NY
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
GE Global Research, Niskayuna, New York (United States)
OSTI Identifier:
879671
Patent Number(s):
US 6,730,918
Application Number:
09/683385
Assignee:
General Electric Company (Niskayuna, NY)
DOE Contract Number:  
FC26-01NT41021
Resource Type:
Patent
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

Citation Formats

Srivastava, Alok Mani, Setlur, Anant Achyut, Comanzo, Holly Ann, Devitt, John William, Ruud, James Anthony, and Brewer, Luke Nathaniel. Apparatus for determining past-service conditions and remaining life of thermal barrier coatings and components having such coatings. United States: N. p., 2004. Web.
Srivastava, Alok Mani, Setlur, Anant Achyut, Comanzo, Holly Ann, Devitt, John William, Ruud, James Anthony, & Brewer, Luke Nathaniel. Apparatus for determining past-service conditions and remaining life of thermal barrier coatings and components having such coatings. United States.
Srivastava, Alok Mani, Setlur, Anant Achyut, Comanzo, Holly Ann, Devitt, John William, Ruud, James Anthony, and Brewer, Luke Nathaniel. 2004. "Apparatus for determining past-service conditions and remaining life of thermal barrier coatings and components having such coatings". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/879671.
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abstractNote = {An apparatus for determining past-service conditions and/or remaining useful life of a component of a combustion engine and/or a thermal barrier coating ("TBC") of the component comprises a radiation source that provides the exciting radiation to the TBC to excite a photoluminescent ("PL") material contained therein, a radiation detector for detecting radiation emitted by the PL material, and means for relating a characteristic of an emission spectrum of the PL material to the amount of a crystalline phase in the TBC, thereby inferring the past-service conditions or the remaining useful life of the component or the TBC.},
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Remote thermometry with thermographic phosphors: Instrumentation and applications
journal, July 1997


Nondestructive evaluation of the oxidation stresses through thermal barrier coatings using Cr 3+ piezospectroscopy
journal, December 1996