Abstract
To improve gas turbine performance, it is essential to decrease back flow gases in the high-temperature combustion region of turbo machine by reducing the shroud/rotor gap. An abradable seal coating will function effectively. Therefore, it is significant to identify and characterize the main wear mechanisms occurring on turbo machinery seals. A high temperature and speed test rig has been developed by BGRIMM for testing the AlSi–hBN abradable seal coating and Ti-6Al-4V dummy blade. Impact velocities between 150 and 300m·s-1 and incursion rates between 5.0 and 480 μm·s-1 have been applied. It was found that incursion rate has a greater impact on the wear mechanism of the AlSi–hBN coating, with tests at low incursion rate showing a obvious grooving and little micro-rupture, whereas tests at high incursion rate showing significant cutting and adhesion. The present work also shown that tests at low incursion rate related to a higher IDR, which means that blade suffered a serious wear. The investigation together with SEM and XRD analysis on the coating revealed both wear and adhesion occurred at the end of the test.
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