Protective Coatings for Turbine Blades

This book presents knowledge accumulated by the author over many years of his work on the research and development of diffusion and overlay protective coatings for aircraft engine turbine blades. The book includes detailed descriptions of some technological processes for diffusion and overlay coatings deposition, together with compositions of the coatings used for turbine blades protection, coatings structures after their deposition on the blade surfaces, and their changes during high-temperature testing.The results of a number of tests for coatings and samples of the alloys used for coating deposition are discussed also. Some chapters deal with thermal barrier coatings, technological features of their deposition, and test results, as well as with the principles of calculations of stresses and strains in the coatings on blades.