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Research Article | Open Access

Revealing the oxidation growth mechanism and crack evolution law of novel Si–HfO2/Yb2Si2O7/Yb2SiO5 environmental barrier coatings during thermal cycling

Ruixiang Liu1,2Wenping Liang1( )Qiang Miao1Hui Zhao1,2Xiaofeng Zhang3Meng Zhang1Rongxue Yan1Brindha Ramasubramanian2Seeram Ramakrishna2( )
College of Materials Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, China
Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117575, Singapore
National Engineering Laboratory for Modern Materials Surface Engineering Technology, Institute of New Materials, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510651, China
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The development of Si–HfO2/Yb2Si2O7/Yb2SiO5 environmental barrier coatings (EBCs) aims to improve the operational temperature and longevity of ceramic matrix composites (CMCs) in turbine environments. Nevertheless, several critical questions remain unanswered, including the oxidation mechanism of Si–HfO2 bond coating, the compatibility of its mixed thermally grown oxide (m-TGO) with adjacent layers during thermal cycling, and the evolution pattern of vertical mud-cracks that impact the overall performance in service. Using plasma spraying physical vapor deposition (PS-PVD), we fabricated these EBCs on a CMC substrate, and thermal cycling tests at 1400, 1450, and 1500 °C revealed that their durability reached 200 h. m-TGO growth followed a parabolic model, with the oxygen diffusion activation energy being 133.69 kJ/mol between 1400 and 1450 °C and 101.47 kJ/mol from 1450 to 1500 °C, emphasizing that the transport of molecular oxygen is key to controlling the oxidation of m-TGO in this EBC system. Although residual stresses and stored elastic strain energy build up between m-TGO and adjacent layers, especially around the cristobalite phase transition temperature, causing interlaminar crack formation in later thermal cycles, the stored elastic strain energy remains lower than that of the silicon oxide–thermally grown oxide (SiO2–TGO) formed in Si bond coating system. In addition to [110] dislocations, (001) twinning and interaction zones between twinning and dislocations were discovered for the first time, driving the bifurcation of mud cracks. Notably, controlling the mud-crack density is vital for protection of Yb2SiO5 layer, as bifurcated mud-crack tips may converge with adjacent mud-cracks.

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Liu R, Liang W, Miao Q, et al. Revealing the oxidation growth mechanism and crack evolution law of novel Si–HfO2/Yb2Si2O7/Yb2SiO5 environmental barrier coatings during thermal cycling. Journal of Advanced Ceramics, 2024, 13(10): 1677-1696. https://doi.org/10.26599/JAC.2024.9220969

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Received: 26 April 2024
Revised: 14 September 2024
Accepted: 15 September 2024
Published: 01 November 2024
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