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Vacuum application of thermal barrier plasma coatings
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | McKechnie, T. N. Holmes, R. R. |
| Copyright Year | 1988 |
| Description | Coatings are presently applied to Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME) turbine blades for protection against the harsh environment realized in the engine during lift off-to-orbit. High performance nickel, chromium, aluminum, and yttrium (NiCrAlY) alloy coatings, which are applied by atmospheric plasma spraying, crack and spall off because of the severe thermal shock experienced during start-up and shut-down of the engine. Ceramic coatings of yttria stabilized zirconia (ZrO2-Y2O3) were applied initially as a thermal barrier over coating to the NiCrAlY but were removed because of even greater spalling. Utilizing a vacuum plasma spraying process, bond coatings of NiCrAlY were applied in a low pressure atmosphere of argon/helium, producing significantly improved coating-to-blade bonding. The improved coatings showed no spalling after 40 MSFC burner rig thermal shock cycles, cycling between 1700 and -423 F. The current atmospheric plasma NiCrAlY coatings spalled during 25 test cycles. Subsequently, a process was developed for applying a durable thermal barrier coating of ZrO2-Y2O3 to the turbine blades of first stage high-pressure fuel turbopumps utilizing the vacuum plasma process. The improved thermal barrier coating has successfully passed 40 burner rig thermal shock cycles without spalling. Hot firing in an SSME turbine engine is scheduled for the blades. Tooling was installed in preparation for vacuum plasma spray coating other SSME hardware, e.g., the titanium main fuel valve housing (MFVH) and the fuel turbopump nozzle/stator. |
| File Size | 256202 |
| Page Count | 11 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19900019337 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t2m66df3h |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1988-09-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Nonmetallic Materials Turbine Blades Nickel Alloys Barrier Layers Yttrium Alloys Aluminum Alloys Chromium Alloys Thermal Control Coatings Temperature Effects Thermal Shock Space Shuttle Main Engine Yttria-stabilized Zirconia Spalling Plasma Spraying Zirconium Alloys Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
