Abstract: Thermal barrier coatings (TBCs), attributed to their inherent brittleness, are vulnerable to damage by impacting foreign objects when kinetic energy of the objects surpasses certain limits. The damage is termed foreign ...

Abstract: This paper was to present how an affordable, high-temperature, interlaminar tension (ILT) strength testing method was explored and developed for ceramic matrix composites (CMCs), leading to development of a diametral-compression ...