Hokkaido University of Science

Published purpose

Gas turbine high-temperature coatings play an important role for the design of advanced aircraft engines. Working in harsh engine environments, these coatings will degrade in performance with time and therefore it is critical to understand the mechanisms of the degradation in order to develop more durable coatings for oxidation protection of gas turbine hot section components. As a research collaborator in the NRC New Beginning Initiative project on “A Novel Manufacturing Process for Gas Turbine High-Temperature Coatings”, Prof. Shigeru Saito from Hokkaido University of Science (HUS) will work closely with the NRC Project Lead (PL) to study the properties of high-temperature coatings using his complementary expertise and resources at HUS. Prof. Shigeru Saito’s contributions to this project include microstructural characterization, isothermal evaluation and thermal cyclic assessment of the coatings fabricated at the NRC. His research findings will be jointly published with the NRC PL in scientific journals and conference proceedings.