Journal
COATINGS
Volume 10, Issue 8, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/coatings10080722
Keywords
yttria-stabilized zirconia; thermal barrier coatings; unmelted nano-particle content; thermal stress distribution; cracks propagation
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- National Key R&D Program of China [2018YFB2004002]
- China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [2019M653598]
- State Key Laboratory of Electrical Insulation and Power Equipment [EIPE20301]
- Natural Science Foundation of Shaanxi Province [2019TD-020, 2019JQ-586, 2020JQ-911]
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The initiation and propagation of cracks are crucial to the reliability and stability of thermal barrier coatings (TBCs). It is important and necessary to develop an effective method for the prediction of the crack propagation behavior of TBCs. In this study, an extended finite element model (XFEM) based on the real microstructure of nanostructured TBCs was built and employed to elucidate the correlation between the microstructure and crack propagation behavior. Results showed that the unmelted nano-particles (UNPs) that were distributed in the nanostructured coating had an obvious capture effect on the cracks, which means that many cracks easily accumulated in the tensile stress zone of the adjacent UNPs and a complex microcrack network formed at their periphery. Arbitrarily oriented cracks mainly propagated parallel to the x-axis at the final stage of thermal cycles and the tensile stress was the main driving force for the spallation failure of TBCs. Correspondingly, I and I-II mixed types of cracks are the major cracking patterns.
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