Preface

The book discusses complex loadings of turbine blades and protective layer thermal barrier coating (TBC), under real working airplane jet conditions. They obey both multi-axial mechanical loading and sudden temperature variation during starting and landing of the airplanes. In particular, two types of blades are analyzed: stationary and rotating, which are widely applied in turbine engines produced by airplane factories. The numerical modelling, consisting of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and computational structural mechanics (CSM), requires some basic experimental research, necessary to correct formulation of the turbine blades thermo-mechanical analysis. The experimental program of research based on the samples with TBC coating was designed for: