The Maeslant storm surge barrier in the Netherlands is an interesting case in system reliability, first because of the great effort that has been put into making its operation reliable and into assessing its reliability, and second, because it has characteristics that make reliability assessment extremely hard. From its history a number of interesting conclusions can be drawn, of which the most...

This work focuses on the modeling and feedback control of the high velocity oxygen fuel (HVOF) thermal spray processing of WC–Co coatings. A first-principles-based process model is proposed to explore the fluid dynamics and particle inflight behavior in the HVOF flow field. Rule-based stochastic simulation, which encapsulates the main features involved in the deposition process, is used to capt...

The thermal barrier coatings (TBCs) by gas tunnel-type plasma spraying exhibited ceramic-composite features consisting of a host oxide matrix ceramic with an embedded second phase material. The densities of the composite TBC were found to be higher than those sprayed with 100wt% ZrO2 or Al2O3. In the coatings produced with powder mixtures of 50wt%, the embedded splats are found to have a relati...

Abstract— Non Destructive Evaluation (NDE) is the method of evaluating material or object without to damage or make worse. This method is used in process and quality controls and it is also used to evaluate of aircraft, power plants, turbines, nuclear reactor. Electro thermal model is used to find the defects in metals, semiconductor and composite materials etc. till now research has not been t...

Future gravitational wave detectors (GWDs) such as Advanced LIGO upgrades and the Einstein Telescope are planned to operate at cryogenic temperatures using crystalline silicon (cSi) test-mass mirrors at an operation wavelength of 1550 nm. The reduction in temperature in principle provides a direct reduction in coating thermal noise, but the presently used coating stacks which are composed of si...

The specific outputs of some diesel engine applications have produced thermal loadings in excess of the strength of typical aluminium piston alloys. Functionally graded coatings are used to increase performances of high temperature components in diesel engines. Thermal barrier coating are being evaluated to return the components durability to acceptable levels as well as providing a means of lo...

Multilayer coating structure comprising a copper (Cu) layer sandwiched between titanium dioxide (TiO2) were demonstrated as a transparent heat reflecting (THR) coating on glass for energy-saving window application. The main highlight is the utilization of Cu, a low-cost material, in-lieu of silver which is widely used in current commercial heat reflecting coating on glass. Color tunable transpa...

In the thermal spraying process, the process for the molten metal particles to hit against matrix to form coating experiences great change temperature. Since the coating materials has different thermal physical properties with the matrix materials, the residual stress is surely left in the coating. Much bigger residual stress not only restricts coating thickness but also primarily affects coati...