Phase composition and residual stresses in thermal barrier coatings

Abstract

The phase composition and the residual stresses in multilayer thermal barrier coatings, which consist of an external ZrO2–8Y2O3 ceramic layer, an intermediate gradient (metal ceramic) layer, and a transient metallic NiCrAlY sublayer, are studied. It is shown that an increase in the specific volume of the metallic sublayer as a result of the formation of thermal growing oxide Al2O3 generates high compressive stresses in this sublayer. The ceramic layer undergoes tensile stresses in this case. A method is proposed to estimate the stresses in gradient coatings from X-ray diffraction results.