Download or read book Design of Thermal Barrier Coatings written by Mohit Gupta and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book details the relationships between microstructure, interface roughness, and properties of thermal barrier coatings. The author proposes a method for the reduction of the thermal conductivity of the ceramic layer in order to increase the lifetime of thermal barrier coatings. He includes models for the optimization of ceramic layer microstructure and interface roughness.