An Automated Image Analysis Framework for Thermal Barrier Coating Porosity Measurement

Author(s):  
Wei-Bang Chen ◽  
Yongjin Lu ◽  
Song Gao ◽  
Chengcui Zhang ◽  
James Li ◽  
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Author(s):  
Wei-Bang Chen ◽  
Benjamin N Standfield ◽  
Song Gao ◽  
Yongjin Lu ◽  
Xiaoliang Wang ◽  
...  

Thermal barrier coating (TBC), a widely used advanced manufacturing technique in various industries, provides thermal insulation and surface protection to a substrate by spraying melted coating materials on to the surface of the substrate. This article is an extended version of a previously published work. To quantify microstructures in the TBC, the authors introduce a fully automated image analysis-based TBC porosity measure (TBCPM) framework which includes 1) top coat layer (TCL) detection module, and 2) microstructure recognition and porosity measure module. The first module is designed to automatically identify the TCL in a TBC image using a histogram-based approach. The second module recognizes the microstructures in the TCL using a local thresholding-based method. This article extends the previous work by introducing convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to enhance the performance of the second module. The experimental results show that the CNN-based methods outperform local thresholding-based methods, and results of the proposed porosity measure are comparable to that of the domain experts.


2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 182-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammed J Kadhim ◽  
Mohammed H Hafiz ◽  
Maryam A Ali Bash

The high temperature corrosion behavior of thermal barrier coating (TBC) systemconsisting of IN-738 LC superalloy substrate, air plasma sprayed Ni24.5Cr6Al0.4Y (wt%)bond coat and air plasma sprayed ZrO2-20 wt% ceria-3.6 wt% yttria (CYSZ) ceramic coatwere characterized. The upper surfaces of CYSZ covered with 30 mg/cm2 , mixed 45 wt%Na2SO4-55 wt% V2O5 salt were exposed at different temperatures from 800 to 1000 oC andinteraction times from 1 up to 8 h. The upper surface plan view of the coatings wereidentified for topography, roughness, chemical composition, phases and reaction productsusing scanning electron microscopy, energy dispersive spectroscopy, talysurf, and X-raydiffraction. XRD analyses of the plasma sprayed coatings after hot corrosion confirmed thephase transformation of nontransformable tetragonal (t') into monoclinic phase, presence ofYVO4 and CeVO4 products. Analysis of the hot corrosion CYSZ coating confirmed theformation of high volume fraction of YVO4, with low volume fractions of CeOV4 and CeO2.The formation of these compounds were combined with formation of monoclinic phase (m)from transformation of nontransformable tetragonal phase (t').


2012 ◽  
Vol 132 (10) ◽  
pp. 864-870
Author(s):  
Tetsuo Fukuchi ◽  
Norikazu Fuse ◽  
Mitsutoshi Okada ◽  
Tomoharu Fujii ◽  
Maya Mizuno ◽  
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2017 ◽  
Vol 137 (3) ◽  
pp. 147-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tetsuo Fukuchi ◽  
Norikazu Fuse ◽  
Mitsutoshi Okada ◽  
Tomoharu Fujii ◽  
Maya Mizuno ◽  
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2015 ◽  
Vol 30 (12) ◽  
pp. 1261
Author(s):  
ZHANG Xiao-Feng ◽  
ZHOU Ke-Song ◽  
ZHANG Ji-Fu ◽  
ZHANG Yong ◽  
LIU Min ◽  
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