EXTREMELY STRAIN TOLERANT THERMAL PROTECTION COATING AND RELATED METHOD AND APPARATUS THEREOF

摘要

Method and Apparatus for efficiently applying coating systems to a surface that can survive the thermal gradient that is encountered in high temperature, high heat flux environments such as a rocket engine or like using vapor or cluster deposition process such as a directed vapor deposition (DVD) approach. Method and Apparatus provides electron or other energetic beam technique to evaporate and deposit compositionally and morphologically controlled bond coats at high rate while providing a highly strain tolerant thermal barrier coating that has an improved porosity morphology between columnar grains.