Femtosecond laser machining of cooling holes in thermal barrier coated CMSX4 superalloy

Journal of Materials Processing Technology

Volumn 209, Issue 15-16, 2009, Pages 5661-5668

  Das, Dipak K ^a   Pollock, Tresa M ^b  

^a DEFENCE METALLURGICAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooling hole; Femtosecond laser; Machining; Superalloy; Thermal barrier coating; Thermal cycling

Indexed keywords

CERAMIC LAYER; COATED SAMPLE; COATED SUPERALLOYS; COLLATERAL DAMAGE; COOLING HOLE; FEMTOSECOND (FS) LASER; FEMTOSECOND LASER; FEMTOSECOND LASER MACHINING; FS LASER; HOLE WALLS; MICROSTRUCTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; PROCESSING CONDITION; RECAST LAYER; SURFACE FINISHES; THERMAL BARRIER;

ABLATIVE MATERIALS; CERAMIC COATINGS; CERAMIC MATERIALS; COOLING; MACHINING; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; SUPERALLOYS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; THERMAL BARRIER COATINGS; THERMAL CYCLING; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

LASERS;

EID: 67651070604     PISSN: 09240136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmatprotec.2009.05.031     Document Type: Article

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