St. Bluni et Ar. Marder, EFFECTS OF THERMAL SPRAY COATING COMPOSITION AND MICROSTRUCTURE ON COATING RESPONSE AND SUBSTRATE PROTECTION AT HIGH-TEMPERATURES, Corrosion, 52(3), 1996, pp. 213-218
Three thermal spray coatings were subjected to high-temperature corros
ion experiments to characterize the operative corrosion mechanism(s) a
nd to examine the effects of coating composition and microstructure. S
amples were placed In air and sulfur dioxide (SO2) at 600 degrees C fo
r exposure times up to 1,000 h. The ability of a thermal spray coating
to protect its substrate effectively was found to depend upon its ten
dency to form protective oxides and upon the cross-sectional distance
from the coating surface to the substrate via fast diffusion paths suc
h as splat boundaries and voids.