High Temperature Degradation
NPL’s High Temperature Degradation research activities strive to develop and promote good measurement practices through improved methodologies, understanding and experimental techniques. Such activities lead to improved measurement practices and models for lifetime prediction, which empower UK industry to validate and develop reliable, less conservative design procedures and maintenance processes.
Application areas for the test methods developed and data obtained are very varied and cover the whole material life cycle from material development and characterisation to lifetime prediction.
The scale and scope of work NPL undertakes is wide, providing one-to-one projects and consultancy to industry and academia in addition to participating in many collaborative projects with a range of national and international consortiums. We hold regular 6 monthly open meetings with industrial and academic partners to discuss the on-going research work and to plan future work, to which you are invited to attend.
Research Themes
Increasing the relevance of laboratory testing to plant behaviour
Protective coatings for high temperature systems
Improved test methods and understanding of steam oxidation
Mechanical properties of bond coats and corrosion resistant coatings
Corrosion in complex atmospheres under thermal cycles
Mechanical response of protective oxide scales
The behaviour of coatings used in gas turbines for protection against corrosion and thermal loads
The behaviour of materials in novel combustion and gasification atmospheres
Corrosion, creep and fatigue interactions in high temperature plant
Characterisation of the mechanical properties of gas turbine coatings
For more information please contact: Tony Fry