Thermal barrier coatings
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsMargeaux Wallace, Mamatha Nagesh, Mohandas Nayak, Sundeep Kumar, Bernard Patrick Bewlay, Julie Marie Kuhn
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Abstract
Coated components, along with methods of their formation, are provided. The coated component may include a substrate having a surface and a thermal barrier coating on the surface of the substrate. The thermal barrier coating includes a plurality of elongated surface-connected voids therein, and wherein the thermal barrier coating comprises a plurality of nonspherical particles within a thermal barrier material.
Claims20
A coated component, comprising:
- a substrate having a surface;
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- a thermal barrier coating on at least a portion of the surface of the substrate, wherein the thermal barrier coating includes a plurality of elongated surface-connected voids therein, and wherein the thermal barrier coating comprises a plurality of nonspherical particles within a thermal barrier material.
A method of forming a coating on a surface of a substrate, the method comprising:
- thermal plasma spraying, or room temperature spraying, a mixture of a plurality of nonspherical particles and a thermal barrier material to form a thermal barrier coating having a plurality of elongated surface-connected voids therein.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.