List of Acronyms
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Appendix III
List of Acronyms
APS Air Plasma Spray
Cf Coefficient of Friction
CVD Chemical Vapour Deposition
D Deposition DS Double Side
Dy2O3 Dysprosia or Dysprosium oxide
EB Electron Beam
EB-PVD Electron Beam Physical Vapour Deposition
EDS Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy
ESEM Environmental Scanning Electron Microscopy
FOD Foreign Object Damage
FSZ Fully Stabilized Zirconia
Gd2O3 Gadolinia or Gadolinium oxide
HPT High Pressure Turbine
IPT Intermediate Pressure Turbine
LPPS Low Pressure Plasma Spray
LPT Low Pressure Turbine
nYSZ Yttria Stabilized Zirconia (with n as Yttria content in weight percentage)
PC96 Alumina polycrystal (purity 96%)
PC99 Alumina polycrystal (purity 99.5%)
PSZ Partially Stabilized Zirconia
Ra Roughness average
RE Rare Earth
REO Rare Earth Oxide
SS Single Side
SX Alumina single crystal (purity 99.99%) t’ metastable tetragonal phase
TBCs Thermal Barrier Coatings
TEM Transmission Electron Microscopy
TET Turbine Entry Temperature
TGO Thermally Grown Oxide
XRD X-ray Diffraction (XRD)
XRF X-ray Fluorescence Spectroscopy
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Y-FSZ Yttria Fully Stabilized Zirconia
Y-PSZ Yttria Partially Stabilized Zirconia
