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Typical coatings for high-temperature applications involve an oxidation resistant coating and a thermal barrier coating (TBC). The oxidation resistant coating is also called bond coat because it provides a layer on which the ceramic TBC can adhere.
In many papers, TBC is used to refer to the ensemble bond-coat+TBC, in the following, I will use TBC only to refer to the ceramic thermal barrier.
As noted in the introduction, the TBC is oxygen transparent and therefore does not provide any oxydation resistance.
Note: the following will make extensive use of these abbreviations:
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