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Non-Line-of-Sight Coating Of Turbine Airfoils

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Navy
Contract: N68335-12-C-0137
Agency Tracking Number: N071-006-0487a
Amount: $1,499,047.00
Phase: Phase II
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: N07-006
Solicitation Number: 2007.1
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2007
Award Year: 2012
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2012-01-25
Award End Date (Contract End Date): 2014-05-31
Small Business Information
2 Boars Head Lane
Charlottesville, VA -
United States
DUNS: 036500804
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Derek Hass
 Dir. of Research and Deve
 (434) 977-1405
 derekh@directedvapor.com
Business Contact
 Harry Burns
Title: President and CEO
Phone: (434) 977-1405
Email: harryburns@directedvapor.com
Research Institution
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Abstract

Advanced thermal barrier coating (TBC) systems are desired for naval gas turbine engines. These coatings will increase the durability of hot-section engine components to significantly improve the time"on-wing", safety and readiness of these engines. Currently, TBC top coats are applied onto gas turbine engine components primarily using an electron beam physical vapor deposition (EB-PVD) process. This approach is an effective means for applying high quality TBC coatings, however, a key drawback of the process it that it can only effectively coat surfaces that are in the line-of-sight of the component surface. The advent of advanced engine designs containing complex components with many hidden and partially hidden surfaces have resulted in a growing need for TBC deposition techniques which can effectively deposit high quality coatings onto the non line-of-sight regions of these components. The objective of this work is to transition into industry the use of a novel physical vapor deposition coating technique that increases the growth rate of TBC coatings in non light-of-sight (NLOS) regions over that found in the EB-PVD technique and also results in the required coating microstructure.

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