Nondestructive measurements of residual stress in air plasma-sprayed thermal barrier coatings

Premature spallation of thermal barrier coatings (TBCs) is a critical issue during the service of gas turbines, and nondestructive evaluation is crucial to address this problem. Herein, a novel approach that indicates delamination by measuring the residual stress evolution of thermally grown oxide (TGO) for air plasma spraying (APS) TBCs is proposed and verified via the combination of photoluminescence piezo-spectroscopy (PLPS) and X-ray computed tomography. A mineral-oil-impregnating approach and a cold-mount low-shrinkage epoxy-mounting approach are used to alleviate the signal attenuation by pores and microcracks in APS TBCs, improving the detectable PLPS signal and X-ray transmission for stress measurement and delamination characterization, respectively. We have nondestructively measured the TGO residual stress mapping in APS TBCs and its evolution with oxidation. Furthermore, the evolution of TGO morphology and critical microcracks are obtained by X-ray computed tomography. The synchronous evolution of TGO residual stress, TGO thickness, and critical microcracks as a function of oxidation time is obtained and correlated. The transition point, as experimentally identified, at which the TGO stress starts to drop, agrees well with the critical moment of microcrack coalescence. This directly verifies that the TBC delamination can be effectively indicated by residual stress evolution of TGO in APS TBCs.     

残余应力集中及其对疲劳极限和短裂纹扩展的影响

缺口根部的残余应力存在应力集中效应,应力集中值不仅取决于缺口几何形状而且和材料的屈服强度有关。残余应力集中系数是一个分布值,其数值甚至可超过理论应力集中系数。软试样喷丸后缺口处的残余应力易于松弛及喷丸时的表面损伤使其对疲劳极限的贡献小。残余压应力使缺口处裂纹闭合力增大甚至可出现非扩展裂纹。     

钢种、轨型及生产工艺对钢轨矫后残余应力的影响

研究了不同钢种（U74、U71Mn、BnbRE）、不同轨型（50kg/m、60kg/m、75kg/m）及在不同生产工艺下，钢轨矫后残余应力值的变化。结果表明，不同钢种生产的同轨型钢轨，矫后钢轨轨底中心部位残余应力值随着钢轨强度级别的增加而增加，同钢种、不同轨型的钢轨矫后轨底中心残余应值随着钢轨单位长度质量的增加而增加，同钢种、同轨型的钢轨随着矫直力的增加，钢轨矫后轨底中心残余应力值也增加。而钢轨终轧温度的高低，矫前原始弯曲度的大小（Y轴方向）在现有生产工艺条件下，对钢轨矫后轨底中心残余应力值无明显影响。     

球化处理中残留碳化物的作用

研究了三种钢在缓冷法球化处理中残留碳化物对球化的影响。结果表明,残留碳化物形貌和数目是影响球化的两个关键因素。残留碳化物只有以点状存在才能使碳化物球化,其数目越多,球化效果越好。通过金相观察和热力学分析,证明了点状残留碳化物在球化中的作用是使共析转变中碳化物能以短棒状和颗粒状析出,以便为随后的碳化物球化长大做好组织准备。     

W18Cr4V高速钢激光相变强化层的残余应力

利用Ｘ射线衍射法对Ｗ１８Ｃｒ４Ｖ高速钢激光相变强化层的残余应力进行了测定和分析。试验结果表明，相变强化层表面的残余应力为压应力，内部为拉应力，近似按正弦函数分布。其大小和分布状态随工艺参数的变化而改变。当改变工艺参数使表面熔化时，表面为拉应力。     

Effects of coating thickness and residual stresses on the bond strength of ASTM C633-79 thermal spray coating test specimens

Wire-arc-sprayed nickel-aluminum is widely used in the aircraft industry for dimensional restoration of worn parts and as a bond coat for thermal barrier coatings and other top coats. Some repair applications require thick coatings, which often result in lower bond strength. A mechanism being investigated to ex-plain this decrease in bond strength is the free edge effect, which includes both coating residual stresses and coating thickness. The layer-removal method was used to determine experimentally the residual stresses in wire-arc-sprayed nickel-aluminum coatings of different thicknesses. Bond strength evalu-ations were performed using an improved ASTM C 633-79 test specimen. Finite-element analysis and fracture mechanics were used to investigate the effects of coating thickness and residual stress state on coating bond strength.     

TiN涂层性能的分析与测定

测定并分析了用PCVD法获得的TiN涂层内的残余应力、涂层的抗变形性以及涂层的耐磨性。实验结果表明,TiN涂层内有残余应应力存在,在一定的变形力作用下,涂层将发生脆性断裂,TiN涂层的耐磨性是45°淬火钢的24倍。TiN涂层这些特性为它的应用奠定了基础。     

固着磨料研磨对工件表面残余应力的影响

探讨了固着磨研磨中磨料尺寸，研磨压力和研磨速度等研磨参数对工件已加工表面残余应力的影响规律。发现了固着磨料研磨使工件表面产生的残余应力为压应力。当磨料尺寸增大，研磨速度提高时，残余应力增大。其增大速度随磨料尺寸增大而减小，随研磨速度的提高而增加。     

焊接残余应力形成机制与消除原理若干问题的讨论

针对目前存在的一些对焊接残余应力形成机制和消除原理传统理论的质疑和不同观点，采用两端拘束杆件和长板各焊接的一维简化模型，分析比较了经受加热与冷却热循环以及直接从高温冷却下来时的应变历史和残余应力产生的机制。结果表明，前者存在残余压缩塑性应变，后者存在残余热收缩应变。两者对产生残余应力的作用完全是等价的，为了统一概念，建议引入固有应变理论。固有应变包括焊接过程中产生的塑性应变，热应变和相变应变，残余应力是在固有应变源作用下构件自动平衡的结果，消除焊接残余应力必须去除固有应变源，此外对若干容易混淆的问题进行了讨论。