Journal
ACTA MATERIALIA
Volume 58, Issue 12, Pages 4233-4244Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.actamat.2010.04.015
Keywords
Sintering; Coatings; Variational methods; Micromechanical modelling; Creep
Funding
- US Office of Naval Research [N00014-05-1-0376]
- EPSRC [EP/C52392X/01]
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/G004676/1, EP/C523946/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- EPSRC [EP/G004676/1, EP/C523946/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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A micromechanical model is presented for the constrained sintering of an air-plasma-sprayed, thermal barrier coating upon a thick superalloy substrate. The coating comprises random splats with intervening penny-shaped cracks. The crack faces make contact at asperities, which progressively sinter in-service by interfacial diffusion, accommodated by bulk creep. Diffusion is driven by the reduction in interfacial energy at the developing contacts and by the local asperity contact stress. At elevated operating temperature, both sintering and creep strains accumulate within the plane of the coating. The sensitivities of sintering rate and microstructure evolution rate to the kinetic parameters and thermodynamic driving forces are explored. It is demonstrated that the sintering response is governed by three independent timescales, as dictated by the material and geometric properties of the coating. Finally, the role of substrate constraint is assessed by comparing the rate of constrained sintering with that for free sintering. (C) 2010 Acta Materialia Inc. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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