The erosion resistance of infrared transparent materials

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 454, Issue 1968, 1998, Pages 213-238

  Coad, E J ^a   Pickles, C S J ^a   Seward, C R ^a   Jilbert, G H ^a   Field, J E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CVD diamond; Erosion resistance; Infrared materials; Liquid impact; Zinc sulphide

Indexed keywords

EID: 1642535239     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.1998.0155     Document Type: Article

References (55)

1. Andrews, D. R., Walley, S. M. &Field, J. E. 1983 Solid particle erosion studies in the Cavendish Laboratory. In 6th Int. Conf. on Erosion by Liquid and Solid Impact (ed. J. E. Field &N. S. Corney), Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, pp. 36.1-36.8.
2. Best, A. C. 1950 The size distribution of raindrops. Q. J. R. Met. Soc. 76.
3. Bourne, N. K., Obara, T. &Field, J. E. 1996 The impact and penetration of a water surface by a liquid jet. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 452, 1497-1502.
4. Bowden, F. P. & Brunton, J. H. 1961 The deformation of solids by liquid impact at supersonic speeds. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 263, 433-450.
5. Bowden, F. P. &Field, J. E. 1964 The brittle fracture of solids by liquid impact, by solid impact and by shock. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 232, 331-352.
6. Brierley, C. J., Costello, M. C., Hudson, M. D. &Bettles, T. J. 1994 Diamond coatings for large-area IR windows. Proc. SPIE 2286, 307-315.
7. Brunton, J. H. &Camus, J.-J. 1970 The application of high speed photography to the analysis of flow in cavitation and drop-impact studies. In Proc. 9th Int. Cong. on High-Speed Photography, Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, Denver, CO.
8. Coad, E. J., Pickles, C. S. J., Jilbert, G. H. &Field, J. E. 1996 Aerospace erosion of diamond and diamond coatings. Diamond Relat. Mater. 5, 640-643.
9. Cook, S. S. 1928 Erosion by water hammer pressure. Proc R. Soc. Lond. A119, 481-488.
10. Costello, M. C., Tossell, D. A., Reece, D. M., Brierley, C. J. &Savage, J. A. 1994 Diamond protective coatings for optical components. Diamond Relat. Mater. 3, 1137-1141.
11. Davidge, R. W. 1979 Mechanical behaviour of ceramics. Cambridge University Press.
12. Dear, J. P. &Field, J. E. 1988 High speed photograhpy of surface geometry effects in liquid-solid impact. J. Appl. Phys. 63, 1015-1021.
13. Farquhar, D. S., Raj, R. &Phoenix, S. L. 1990 Fracture and stiffness characteristics of particulate composites of diamond in zinc sulphide. J. Am. Ceram. Soc. 73, 3074-3080
14. Feng, Z. &Field, J. E. 1990 Solid particle erosion of diamond, a polycrystalline diamond composite and a polycrystalline boron nitride composite. J. Hard Mater. 4, 273-287.
15. Field, J. E. 1966 Stress waves, deformation and fracture caused by liquid impact. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. A 260, 89-93.
16. Field, J. E. (ed.) 1979 The properties of diamond. London: Academic.
17. Field, J. E. (ed.) 1992 The properties of natural and synthetic diamond. London: Academic.
18. Field, J. E. &Pickles, C. S. J. 1996 Strength, fracture and friction properties of diamond. Diamond Relat. Mater. 5, 625-634.
19. Field, J. E., Gorham, D. A., Hagan, J. T., Matthewson, M. J., Swain, M. V. &van der Zwaag, S. 1979 Liquid jet impact and damage assessment for brittle solids. In Proc. 5th Int. Conf. on Erosion by Liquid and Solid Impact (ed. J. E. Field), Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, pp. 13.1-13.11.
20. Field, J. E., van der Zwaag, S. &Townsend, D. 1983 Liquid impact damage assessment of a range of infrared materials. In Proc. 6th Int. Conf. on Erosion by Liquid and Solid Impact (ed. J. E. Field &N. S. Corney), Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, pp. 21.1-21.13.
21. Field, J. E., Lesser, M. B & Dear, J. P. 1985 Studies of two-dimensional liquid wedge impact and their relevance to liquid-drop impact problems. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 401, 225-249.
22. Field, J. E., Dear, J. P. &Ögren J.-E. 1989a The effect of target compliance on liquid drop impact. J. Appl. Phys. 65, 533-540.
23. Field, J. E., Hand, R. J., Pickles, C. S. J. & Seward, C. R. 1989b Rain erosion studies of IR materials. Proc. SPIE, 1191.
24. Gibson, D. R. & Waddell, E. M. 1994 Advances in ultradurable phosphide-based broadband antireflection coatings for sand and rain erosion protection of infrared windows and domes. Proc. SPIE, 2286, 335-346.
25. Hand, R. J. & Field, J. E. 1990 Liquid impact on toughened glass. Eng. Frac. Mech. 37, 293-311.
26. Hand, R. J., Field, J. E. &van der Zwaag, S. 1989 High modulus layers as protective coatings for window materials. Proc. SPIE, 1112, 120-128.
27. Hand, R. J., Field, J. E. &Townsend, D. 1991 The use of liquid jets to simulate angled drop impact. J. Appl. Phys. 70, 7111-7118.
28. Harris, D. C. 1992 Infrared window and dome materials. Bellingham, WA: SPIE Optical Engineering Press.
29. Harris, D. C. 1995 Diamond optics: status for infrared applications. In 3rd Int. Conf. on the Applications of Diamond Films and Related Materials, NIST special publication, vol. 885, pp. 539-546.
30. Heymann, F. J. 1969 High speed impact between a liquid drop and a solid surface. J. Appl. Phys. 40, 5113-5122.
31. Johnson, K. L. 1985 Contact mechanics. Cambridge University Press.
32. Klein, C. A. 1992 Infrared missile domes: is there a figure of merit for thermal shock? Proc. SPIE, 1760, 338-357.
33. Klocek, P. (ed.) 1992 Handbook of infrared optical materials. New York: Marcel Dekker.
34. Kolsky, H. 1953 Stress waves in solids. Oxford University Press.
35. Lesser, M. B. 1981 Analytic solutions of liquid-drop problems. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 377, 289-308.
36. Lesser, M. B. &Field, J. E. 1983 The impact of compressible liquids. Ann. Rev. Fluid Mech. 15, 97-122.
37. Miller, G. F. &Pursey, H. 1956 On the partition of energy between elastic waves in a semi-infinte solid. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 233, 55-69.
38. Nicholson, E. D. &Field, J. E. 1994 The mechanical and thermal properties of thin films. J. Hard Mat. 5, 89-132.
39. Obara, T., Bourne, N. K. &Field, J. E. 1995 Liquid-jet impact on liquid and solid surfaces. Wear 186-187, 388-394.
40. Pickles, C. S. J. 1991 Infrared transmitting materials in the high velocity environment. Ph.D. thesis, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.
41. Pickles, C. S. J. &Field, J. E. 1994 The dependence of the strength of zinc sulphide on temperature and environment. J. Mater. Sci. 25, 1115-1120.
42. Pickles, C. S. J., Coad, E. J., Jilbert, G. H. &Field, J. E. 1995 The erosive behaviour of diamond. Mat. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. 383, 327-338.
43. Rickerby, D. G. 1976 High velocity liquid impact and fracture phenomena. Ph.D. thesis, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.
44. Rochester, M. C. &Brunton, J. H. 1979 Pressure distribution during drop impact. In Proc. 5th Int. Conf. on Erosion by Liquid and Solid Impact (ed. J. E. Field), Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, pp. 6.1-6.7.
45. Savage, J. A. 1985 Infrared optical materials and their antireflection coatings. Bristol: Adam Hilger.
46. Seward, C. R. 1992 Rain erosion testing of infrared window materials. Ph.D. thesis, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.
47. Seward, C. R., Pickles, C. S. J., Marrah, R. & Field, J. E. 1992 Rain erosion data on window and dome materials. Proc. SPIE, 1760, 280-290.
48. Seward, C. R., Coad, E. J., Pickles, C. S. J. & Field, J. E. 1994 The rain erosion of diamond and other window materials. Proc. SPIE, 2286, 285-300.
49. Steverding, B. & Lehrigk, S. H. 1969 Dynamic thresholds for crack propagation. Int. J. Fract. Mech. 5, 369-370.
50. van der Zwaag, S. &Field, J. E. 1983a The effect of double layer coatings of high modulus on contact stresses. Phil. Mag. A 53, 101-111.
51. van der Zwaag, S. &Field, J. E. 1983b Rain erosion damage in brittle materials. Eng. Fract. Mech. 17, 376-379.
52. Waddell, E. M. &Gibson, D. R. 1994a Sand impact testing of durable coatings on FLIR ZnS relevant to the Lantirn E-O system window. Proc. SPIE 2286, 364-375.
53. Waddell, E. M. &Gibson, D. R. 1994b Broadband IR transparent rain and sand erosion protective coatings for the F14 aircraft infrared search and track germanium dome. Proc. SPIE 2286, 376-385.
54. Wort, C. J. H., Brandon, J. R., Dorn, B. S. C., Savage, J. A. &Sussmann, R. S. 1995 Properties of CVD diamond domes. In 3rd Int. Conf. on the Applications of Diamond Films and Related Materials, NIST Special Publication, vol. 885, pp. 569-572.
55. Xue, L. A., Farquhar, D. S., Noh, T. W., Sievers, A. J. &Raj, R. 1990 Acta Metal. Mater. 38, 1743-1752.