TY - JOUR ID - 21050371 AU - Tarasi, Fariba AU - Medraj, Mamoun AU - Dolatabadi, Ali AU - Lima, Rogerio S. AU - Moreau, Christian T1 - Thermal cycling of suspension plasma sprayed Alumina-YSZ coatings containing amorphous phases JO - Journal of the American Ceramic Society SP - 2614 EP - 2621 VL - 95 IS - 8 PY - 2012 KW - thermal cyclic test KW - amorphous phase KW - composite ceramic KW - alumina-zirconia KW - thermal barrier coating N2 - Thermal cyclic test at 1080°C for various numbers of cycles was performed on suspension plasma-sprayed coatings of alumina-yttria-stabilized zirconia composites and yttria-stabilized zirconia (YSZ). The structural variations of composite coatings were studied to verify the possibility of production of nano-composite coatings with nano-dispersed oxides. The results showed that this composite exhibited a lower thermally grown oxide growth than that of the YSZ. New multi-constituent composites formed of alternative regions of nano-precipitates of alumina in zirconia matrix and nano-precipitates of zirconia in alumina matrix were developed via phase transformation through thermal cyclic process of amorphous-containing structure. M1 - 139271 DO - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1551-2916.2012.05292.x U3 - NRC Industrial Materials Institute U3 - Institut des matériaux industriels du CNRC (IMI-IMI) ER -