CMC materials with integrated thermocouple

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12195406-B2
Application number	US-202218722026-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 13, 2022
Priority date	Dec 22, 2021
Publication date	Jan 14, 2025
Grant date	Jan 14, 2025

Abstract

A part includes a substrate made of ceramic matrix composite material, the substrate being coated with a multilayer stack including at least, and in this order, starting from the substrate a tie layer including silicon; an insulation layer including a rare earth disilicate or silica; a barrier layer including a rare earth disilicate; the part further including at least one thermocouple inserted between the insulation layer and the barrier layer.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A part comprising a substrate made of ceramic matrix composite material, said substrate being coated with a multilayer stack comprising, in this order, starting from the substrate:
a tie layer comprising silicon;
an insulation layer comprising a rare earth disilicate or silica;
a barrier layer comprising a rare earth disilicate;
the part further comprising at least one thermocouple inserted between the insulation layer and the barrier layer.

2. The part according to claim 1 , wherein the insulation layer has a thickness less than or equal to 100 μm.

3. The part according to claim 1 , wherein the barrier layer has a thickness between 10 μm and 2.0 mm.

4. The part according to claim 1 , further comprising, on the barrier layer, one or more layers chosen from a thermal barrier, an abradable layer and/or a layer resistant to compounds comprising calcium, magnesium, aluminium and/or silicon and/or oxides of these compounds (CMAS).

5. The part according to claim 1 , wherein the part is an aeronautical turbomachine part chosen from: a turbine ring, a blade/vane, a combustion chamber, a high-pressure distributor or a low-pressure distributor.

6. A method for producing the part according to claim 1 , the production method comprising:
forming the tie layer comprising silicon on at least one surface of the substrate made of ceramic matrix composite material; then
forming the insulation layer comprising the rare earth disilicate or silica on the tie layer; then
forming the thermocouple on the insulation layer; then
forming the barrier layer comprising the rare earth disilicate on the insulation layer, and such that the thermocouple is inserted between the insulation layer and the barrier layer; then
a step of heat treatment at a temperature between 1000° C. and 1500° C., for a duration of between 5 hours and 50 hours.

7. The production method according to claim 6 , wherein forming the thermocouple comprises a step of depositing a conductive ink by ink jet, aerosol jet printing, screen printing, micro-extrusion or laser deposition.

8. The production method according to claim 7 , wherein the conductive ink is a suspension comprising one or more solvents, one or more organic binders and particles, the particles being chosen from nanoparticles or microparticles of silver (Ag), a copper-nickel-manganese alloy (CuNiMn), platinum (Pt) or a platinum-rhodium alloy (PtRh).

9. The production method according to claim 7 , wherein forming the thermocouple comprises a step of printing the thermocouple on the insulation layer and a step of high-temperature sintering of the deposited ink in order to remove the organic components of the ink and to sinter together the metallic particles of the ink and to form the continuous circuit of the thermocouple.

10. The production method according to claim 6 , wherein the heat treatment step is carried out at a temperature between 1100° C. and 1150° C., for a duration of between 5 hours and 10 hours.

Assignees

• Safran Ceram
• Safran

Inventors

• Conete Eric
• Pin Lisa
• Stasinopoulos Ioannis

Classifications

• F05D2300/611

  Coating · CPC title

• F05D2300/6033

  Ceramic matrix composites [CMC] · CPC title

• F05D2300/21

  Oxide ceramics · CPC title

• F05D2300/15

  Rare earth metals, i.e. Sc, Y, lanthanides · CPC title

• F05D2230/31

  Layer deposition · CPC title