Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
1476239 Journal of the European Ceramic Society 2010 6 Pages PDF
Abstract

A thermodynamic study was carried out in order to quantify the stability of yttrium silicates under different atmospheres (argon, air, moisture), and to predict their behaviour as an EBC. For this purpose, the partial pressures of gaseous species formed during the reactive vaporization in equilibrium with yttrium silicates were evaluated and compared to those over each oxide taken separately. The partial pressures of silicon and rare earth hydroxides at the equilibrium over rare earth silicates are lower than those over each single oxide. Thus yttrium silicates appear to be sufficiently stable to be promising materials to be used as environmental barrier coatings.

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