Abstract: A method for coating at least one surface of a solid substrate with at least one layer comprising at least one ceramic compound by a suspension plasma spraying (SPS) technique, in which at least one suspension of solid particles of at least one ceramic compound is injected into a plasma jet, and then the thermal jet that contains the solid particle suspension is sprayed onto the surface of the substrate, by way of which the layer comprising at least one ceramic compound is formed on the surface of the substrate; method characterised in that, in the suspension, at least 90 vol % of the solid particles have a larger dimension (referred to as d90), such as a diameter, smaller than 15 ?m, preferably smaller than 10 ?m, and at least 50 vol % of the solid particles have a larger dimension, such as a diameter (referred to as d50), no smaller than 1 ?m. A substrate coated with at least one layer that can be obtained by the method.

Abstract: An estimation method for estimating thickness of a ceramic thermal barrier coating that is to be deposited by physical vapor deposition from at least one target and onto a gas turbine hot part mounted on a support tooling, the method including: digitally modeling a geometrical shape of the hot part and its movements relative to the target; representing the modeled hot part as a surface mesh; and estimating, for at least one mesh element of the hot part exposed to the radiation from the target during deposition of the coating, a coating thickness to be deposited on the mesh element at a given instant by using a radiation model modeling radiation from the target and taking account of the position of the mesh element at that given instant relative to the target.

Abstract: A composite target is placed in a chamber. The target is in the form of a bar made of ceramic powder and it presents composition that is not uniform in the longitudinal direction. At least one substrate is introduced into the chamber in order to have formed thereon a ceramic coating with a composition gradient. The top face of the bar is swept by an electron beam so as to melt the bar material at its top face and form a vapor cloud in the chamber under low pressure. A bar is used that presents a plurality of superposed layers of different compositions, with the composition within each layer being uniform over the entire cross-section of the bar. Each layer of the bar comprises zirconia and at least one oxide selected from the oxides of nickel, cobalt, iron, yttrium, hafnium, cerium, lanthanum, tantalum, niobium, scandium, samarium, gadolinium, dysprosium, ytterbium, and aluminum.

Abstract: The present invention concern a method using powder metallurgy for producing molded parts intended to be assembled by self-brazing to metal parts capable of receiving them and said receiving parts. The method comprises forming a homogenous mixture of a basic metal powder, brazing powder and a liquid binding agent which is injection molded to form a self-brazing part.