Residual stress evaluations of thermally sprayed coatings by a modified Almen method

Based on the Almen method, the authors have modified this test method so that the results of the simple test can be correlated to the absolute values of residual stress measured by conventional methods such as X-ray diffraction, or mechanical techniques. The technique utilizes changes in the strain of standardized test substrates, which is measured by BHP-700℃ temperature-compensated resistance strain gauges, as an indication of the level of residual stress in the sprayed coatings. Based on the concept that the sprayed coating on the surface of substrate with residual stresses acts a force (N) and bending moment (M) on the test piece, the calculating equation of residual stress in the coatings has been proposed. The results of the test method showed that the technique is potentially reliable and accurate, although deficiencies and many controversies are still exist.

Evolution of Residual Stresses in Micro-arc Oxidation Ceramic Coatings on 6061 Al Alloy

Most researches on micro-arc oxidation mainly focus on the application rather than discovering the evolution of residual stresses. However, residual stresses in the surface coatings of structural components have adverse effects on their properties, such as fatigue life, dimensional stability and corrosion resistance, etc. The micro-arc oxidation ceramic coatings are produced on the surfaces of 6061 aluminum alloy by a homemade asymmetric AC type of micro-arc oxidation equipment of 20 kW. A constant current density of 4.4___0.1 A/dm2 and a self-regulated composite electrolyte are used. The micro-arc oxidation treatment period ranges from 10 min to 40 min, and the thickness of the ceramic coatings is more than 20 Bin. Residual stresses attributed to 7-A1203 constituent in the coatings at different micro-arc oxidation periods are analyzed by an X-ray diffractometer using the sin2~u method. The analysis results show that the residual stress in the ceramic coatings is compressive in nature, and it increases first and then decreases with micro-arc oxidation time increase. The maximum stress value is 1 667_＋20 MPa for period of 20 min. Through analyzing the coating thickness, surface morphology and phase composition, it is found that the residual stress in the ceramic coatings is linked closely with the coating growth, the phase composition and the micro cracks formed. It is also found that both the heat treatment and the ultrasonic action release remarkably the residual compressive stress. The heat treatment makes the residual compressive stress value decrease 1 378 MPa. The ultrasonic action even alters the nature of the residual stress, making the residual compressive stress change into a residual tensile stress.

Structure design of gradient hard coatings on YG8 and their residual stress analysis by ANSYS

A structure of gradient hard coatings( Ti,TiN,TiCN and TiAlN) is designed,and residual stress is simulated by a finite element method with ANSYS. The influence of the realistic situation including load and temperature on the residual stress of the coatings is investigated. Simulated results show that the realistic situation strongly affects the residual stress. To be specific,i) The main residual stress concentrates on the coatings prepared on YG8 substrate,and the residual stress and its gradient of the coatings are bigger than that of the substrate; ii) TiAlN and TiCN coatings have better resistance compression than that of TiN coatings in the same condition; iii) The improved multilayer structure of the gradient hard coatings produces weaker residual stress but higher anti-pressure of the substrate.

Residual stress evolution regularity in thermal barrier coatings under thermal shock loading

Residual stress evolution regularity in thermal barrier ceramic coatings （TBCs） under different cycles of thermal shock loading of 1 100℃ was investi- gated by the microscopic digital image correlation （DIC） and micro-Raman spec- troscopy, respectively. The obtained results showed that, as the cycle number of the thermal shock loading increases, the evolution of the residual stress under- goes three distinct stages： a sharp increase, a gradual change, and a reduction. The extension stress near the TBC surface is fast transformed to compressive one through just one thermal cycle. After different thermal shock cycles with peak temperature of 1 100℃, phase transformation in TBC does not happen, whereas the generation, development, evolution of the thermally grown oxide （TGO） layer and micro-cracks are the main reasons causing the evolution regularity of the residual stress.

Residual stresses within sprayed coatings

Some important developments of residual stress researches for coating-based systems were studied. The following topics were included the sources of residual stresses in coatings: error analysis of Stoneys equation in the curvature method used for the measurement of coating residual stress, the modeling of residual stress and some analytical models for predicting the residual stresses in coatings. These topics should provide some important insights for the fail-safe design of the coating-based systems.

Compensation of stress intensity factors in hollow cylinders containing several cracks under torsion by electro-elastic coating

In this article, a formulation for a hollow cylinder reinforced with an electroelastic layer is investigated. The hollow cylinder and its electro-elastic coating are under the Saint-Venant torsional loading. First, the solution to the problem containing a Volterra-type screw dislocation is obtained by using the Fourier transform. The problem is then reduced to a set of Cauchy singular integral equations by the distributed dislocation method. Finally, several examples are presented to show the effect of the electro-elastic coating on the reduction of the stress intensity factors at the crack tips.

Thermal Residual Stresses in Multilayered Coatings

The mechanical integrity and reliability of coated devices are strongly affected by the residual stresses in thin films and coatings. However, due to the metallurgical complexity of materials, it is rather difficult to obtain a closed-form solution of residual stresses within multilayered coatings （e.g. functionally graded coatings, FGCs）. In this paper,an analytical model is developed to predict the distribution of residual stresses within multilayered coatings. The advantage of this model is that the solution of residual stresses is independent of the number of layers. Specific results are obtained by calculating elastic thermal stresses in ZrO2/NiCoCrAIY FGCs, which consist of different material layers. Furthermore, the residual stress distribution near the edges and the stress-induced failure modes of coating are also analyzed. The topics discussed provide some insights into the development of a methodology for designing fail-safe coating systems.

Finite Element Analysis of Thermal Stresses in Ceramic/Metal Gradient Thermal Barrier Coatings

This paper studied the thermal stresses of ceramicl metal gradient thermal barrier coating which combines the conceptions of ceramic thermal barrier coating （TBC） and functionally gradient material （FGM）. Thermal stresses and residual thermal stresses were calculated by an ANSYS finite element analysis software. Negative thermal expansion coefficient method was proposed and element birth and death method was applied to analyze the residual thermal stresses which have non-uniform initial temperature field. The numerical results show a good agreement with the analytical results and the experimental results.

Analysis of Interfacial Coating Effect on Thermal Stress in Composites

A preliminary model for the analysis of thermo-mechanical behaviour of interfacial coatings on the fibers in unidirectional composites have been developed on the solution of thermo-elastic mechan- ics. Thermal stress would be introduced into the composite during cooling because of the mismatch of thermo-mechanical properties among their components. The low modulus coating can effectively reduce the interracial stress caused by different thermal expansion coefficient between fibers and ma- trix, no matter how high or low the expansion coefficients of coatings are in CF/Al and SiC/Ti composite systems, however, high modulus coating can decrease the interfacial compressive stress, only when the thermal expansion coefficient of coating is lower.

Coherent gradient sensing method for measuring thermal stress field of thermal barrier coating structures

Coherent gradient sensing （CGS） method can be used to measure the slope of a reflective surface, and has the merits of full-field, non-contact, and real-time measurement. In this study, the thermal stress field of thermal barrier coating （TBC） structures is measured by CGS method. Two kinds of powders were sprayed onto Ni-based alloy using a plasma spraying method to obtain two groups of film-substrate specimens. The specimens were then heated with an oxy-acetylene flame. The resulting thermal mismatch between the film and substrate led to out-of-plane deformation of the specimen. The deformation was measured by the reflective CGS method and the thermal stress field of the structure was obtained through calibration with the help of finite element analysis. Both the experiment and numerical results showed that the thermal stress field of TBC structures can be successfully measured by CGS method.

Dynamic residual stress in thermal sprayed coatings

With the modified Almen method, the forming and development process of residual stress in a thermal sprayed coating has been obtained. The test restdts identify that the residual stress in a coating is depend on coating material properties, technique and coating thickness. The paper pays much attention to the hysteresis between the coating temperature and residual stress in the coating or between the applied stress and the strain of the coating, and confirms that the fact is resulted from the“Gas Fix” character of a thermal sprayed coating.

RESIDUAL STRESS AND DAMAGE MODE OF HARD Ti(CN)COATINGS

Using free bending method,the residual stress of the Ti(CN)coating on alloy Nb-752 was measured to be 2-3 GPa of which the thermal stress cmounts to 10—20%.An analysis on coating/substrate interface stress state shows that the share stress at it is about O.1—0.2 GPa.The demage mode of the coating under external loading was proposed in terms of the amount and the direction of loading.

Finite element analysis on stresses field of normalized layer thickness within ceramic coating on aluminized steel

Multilayer ceramic coatings were fabricated on steel substrate using a combined technique of hot dipping aluminum(HDA) and plasma electrolytic oxidation(PEO). A triangle of normalized layer thickness was created for describing thickness ratios of HDA/PEO coatings. Then, the effect of thickness ratio on stresses field of HDA/PEO coatings subjected to uniform normal contact load was investigated by finite element method. Results show that the surface tensile stress is mainly affected by the thickness ratio of Al layer when the total thickness of coating is unchanged. With the increase of Al layer thickness, the surface tensile stress rises quickly. When Al2O3 layer thickness increases, surface tensile stress is diminished. Meanwhile, the maximum shear stress moves rapidly towards internal part of HDA/PEO coatings. Shear stress at the Al2O3 /Al interface is minimal when Al2O3 layer and Al layer have the same thickness.

Residual Thermal Stresses of Laser Cladding of Intermetallic-Ceramic Composite Coatings

The stresses in laser cladding of Ni3Al-WC composite coating co and in heat affect zone (HAZ) σh have been induced based on considering the influences of laser processing parameters power P and beam traverse speed v.According to the calculated results, certain limits of P and v are necessary in order to obtain crack free coatings. It agrees well with the experimental results.

Analysis of Residual Thermal Stress in CVD-W Coating as Plasma Facing Material

Chemical vapor deposition-tungsten （CVD-W） coating covering the surface of the plasma facing component （PFC） is an effective method to implement the tungsten material as plasma facing material （PFM） in fusion devices. Residual thermal stress in CVD-W coating due to thermal mismatch between coating and substrate was successfully simulated by using a finite element method （ANSYS 10.0 code）. The deposition parametric effects, i.e., coating thickness and deposition temperature, and interlayer were investigated to get a description of the residual thermal stress in the CVD-W coating-substrate system. And the influence of the substrate materials on the generation of residual thermal stress in the CVD-W coating was analyzed with respect to the CVD-W coating application as PFM. This analysis is beneficial for the preparation and application of CVD-W coating.

Effect of cutting speed on residual stress of special coating during remanufacturing

To study the residual stress of the special coating at different cutting speeds, the cutting of FeA1CrBSiNb coating is analyzed with the finite element method （FEM） and experiment according to the coating characteristics. The CNC machine tool is used to cut the coating and the X-ray stress equipment is used to measure the residual stress of coating. The experimental and FEM results agree with each other. Also, the residual-stress coating depth is deeper and the residual stress of the coating surface is larger with increasing cutting speed. In addition, the residual stress of the coating surface is in the suppression state affected by axial residual stress and circumferential residual stress, and the residual stress of the deeper coating is in the tensile state based on the original state of arc spraying and cutting process.

MEASUREMENT OF INTERNAL STRESSES OF METAL MULTILAYER COMPOSITE COATINGS

The principle, formula and determination of internal stresses of metal multilayer composite coatings by means of the bending strip method were studied. Using this method, internal stresses of ion-plated metal multilayer composite coatings and thick monolayer coating of aluminium bronze, stainless steel and nickel-iron alloy were determined. The reason of decrement in internal stresses of multilayer composite coatings was discussed.

Evaluation of properties and thermal stress field for thermal barrier coatings

In order to get thermal stress field of the hot section with thermal barrier coating (TBCs), the thermal conductivity and elastic modulus of top-coat are the physical key properties. The porosity of top-coat was tested and evaluated under different high temperatures. The relationship between the microstructure (porosity of top-coat) and properties of TBCs were analyzed to predict the thermal properties of ceramic top-coat, such as thermal conductivity and elastic modulus. The temperature and stress field of the vane with TBCs were simulated using two sets of thermal conductivity data and elastic modulus, which are from literatures and this work, respectively. The results show that the temperature and stress distributions change with thermal conductivity and elastic modulus. The differences of maximum temperatures and stress are 6.5% and 8.0%, respectively.

铀部件表面复合镀层的界面力学行为研究

针对铀部件表面复合镀层界面结合强度较低,甚至出现局部脱落或开裂问题,在磁控溅射沉积工艺下复合镀层界面特性研究的基础上,建立了镀层界面力学行为研究的数值模型,研究了沉积温度、镀层材料性能,以及构件尺寸等对Al/Ti、Al/Al_(2)O_(3)复合镀层界面力学行为的影响。结果表明,沉积温度超过300℃时,外镀层界面会出现较大的应力波动,会直接影响到复合镀层的界面结合强度。因此,Al/Ti、Al/Al_(2)O_(3)复合镀层的沉积温度应不超过300℃。与复合镀层Al/Ti相比较,复合镀层Al/Al_(2)O_(3)不仅能够提高Al镀层和基体界面的结合力,还能够降低界面处的应力波动,将是进一步改善铀及铀合金耐蚀性和耐磨性的主要研究方向。

保偏光纤内外涂层应力对光纤双折射的影响分析

通过研究熊猫型保偏光纤的应力区结构和材料的热膨胀系数、杨氏模量、泊松比,得出了提升保偏光纤双折射的方法。根据内外涂层材料低温特性不同,得出了减小光纤涂层直径能增强光纤双折射的结论。利用COMSOL有限元分析软件建立了光纤环内部受力模型,并分析了光纤涂层材料和不同厚度比例对绕制张力的抑制效果。仿真结果表明,当光纤包层直径和外涂层直径一定时,存在内外涂层最佳厚度比例,较原光纤厚度比例抑制绕制张力效果提升约10%,内外涂层的杨氏模量、泊松比的改变也能有效地减小绕制张力的作用。