Abstract
Ceramic based thermal barrier coatings are extensively employed to shield critical engineering components from harsh temperature environments, where the typical Fourier's law may not be able to provide an accurate assessment of the physical process. This work adopts a more generalized heat conduction approach to reveal the thermal and fracture interaction mechanism of two collinear interface cracks in orthotropic functionally graded thermal coating systems by dual-phase-lag theory. The heating rate of the imposed thermal loading on the exterior bounding surface is modeled by ramp-type function, where the ramping period is comparable to the certain time spent for building the local thermal equilibrium within composites. The methods of Fourier transform and Laplace transform in conjunction with the singular integral equations are applied to solve the complex transient thermoelastic problem. Parametric investigations are conducted to investigate the impacts of ramping time, thermal lags, nonhomogeneous parameters, and crack spacing on the thermal and fracture characteristics. According to the maximum hoop stress criterion, higher fracture risk is discovered with the approaching of collinear interface cracks.
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