Terahertz based thickness measurement of thermal barrier coatings using hybrid machine learning

Y Gong, B Cao, H Zhang, F Sun… - Nondestructive Testing and …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Thickness of thermal barrier coatings (TBCs) is closely related to the performance of hot-
section components in aero-engine. In this paper, a model of Elman neural network …

High-resolution terahertz imaging of de-bonding defects in thermal barrier coatings using an optimal wavelet transform

F Sun, M Fan, B Cao, B Ye, L Liu - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The debonding defects in the thermal barrier coatings (TBCs) are tiny and thin, yielding
severely overlapped terahertz (THz) echoes. Hence, we introduce a powerful signal …

Thickness measurement of thermal barrier coating based on mutual inductance of eddy current system

C Li, M Fan, B Cao, B Ye, Q Wang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Thickness of thermal barrier coating (TBC) plays an important role in the insulation property
of coating. Eddy current (EC) testing could be used to measure the thickness of ceramic …

Advances in Thermal Barrier Coatings Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis: A Review

A Ashofteh, M Rajabzadeh - Journal of the European Ceramic Society, 2024 - Elsevier
This review presents an approach to traditional and advanced modeling, simulation, and
analysis techniques in the context of thermal barrier coatings (TBCs), augmented by AI …

THzMINet: a Terahertz model-data-Driven Interpretable neural network for thickness measurement of thermal barrier coatings

F Sun, B Cao, M Fan, B Ye, L Liu - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The complex microstructure of thermal barrier coatings (TBCs) and varying lift-off distance
bring a great challenge for accurate terahertz thickness measurements. Available methods …

Physical constraints-based terahertz thickness measurement method of thermal barrier coating

B Cao, T Deng, M Fan, F Sun, B Ye - NDT & E International, 2024 - Elsevier
Due to the uneven microstructure of the thermal barrier coatings (TBCs) and dispersion
effect, there is a discrepancy between the measured terahertz (THz) signals and the theory …

CNN-GRU based method for peak location of reflected Terahertz signals from thermal barrier coatings

B Cao, H Shang, M Fan, F Sun - Nondestructive Testing and …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Due to the limitation of spraying conditions, the microstructure of Thermal Barrier Coatings
(TBCs) is not homogeneous, so it is important to extract the peak information of the reflected …

[HTML][HTML] Multi-scale analysis of terahertz time-domain spectroscopy for inversion of thermal growth oxide thickness in thermal barrier coatings

R Li, D Ye, J Xu, J Pan - Coatings, 2023 - mdpi.com
To address the inverse problem of thermal growth oxide (TGO) thickness in thermal barrier
coatings (TBCs), a novel multi-scale analysis (MSA) method based on terahertz time-domain …

Physics-Constrained Transfer Learning for Self-Assessment of Terahertz Thickness Measurement of Thermal Barrier Coatings

F Sun, B Cao, M Fan, B Ye, J Pan - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Terahertz (THz) thickness measurements of thermal barrier coatings vary within a certain
range in terms of accuracy and occasionally generate unsatisfying results. To identify such …

[HTML][HTML] Data-Driven Method for Porosity Measurement of Thermal Barrier Coatings Using Terahertz Time-Domain Spectroscopy

D Ye, R Li, J Xu, J Pan - Coatings, 2023 - mdpi.com
Accurate measurement of porosity is crucial for comprehensive performance evaluation of
thermal barrier coatings (TBCs) on aero-engine blades. In this study, a novel data-driven …