作者: Abba Abdulhamid Abubakar , Syed Sohail Akhtar , Abul Fazal M. Arif
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摘要: Due to the use of low quality fuels in Saudi Arabia, hot corrosion occurs at the top coat of Thermal Barrier Coatings (TBCs) as a result of the formation of a molten salt, V2O5, which penetrates it through either diffusion mechanism or the open porosities in the YSZ. The interaction between this molten salt and the Zirconia stablizer is a dissolution-precipitation type reaction which occurs throughout the Planar Reaction Zone (PRZ) and the Melt-Infiltrated Reaction Zone (MIRZ) leaching a new phase, YVO4, and also causing tetragonal to monoclinic phase transformation of Zirconia. Swelling due to transformation-mismatch plasticity causes the development of localized stresses in the topcoat which subsequently contributes to the premature failure of the coating. In the current work, a 1D-Phase field model was developed that could estimate the kinetics and micro-structural evolution during the isothermal (diffusional) tetragonal-to-monoclinic phase transformation at 900°C in the top coat. The result obtained from the Phase Field Model was sequentially coupled with Finite Element Method, and the resulting stress field in the top coat was predicted.