“…Thermal barrier coatings (TBCs) have been used for many years in order to protect critical turbine engine parts (i.e., blades, combustion chambers) from high temperatures and aggressive environments. Along with the development of computer-aided design/computer-aided engineering (CAD/CAE) programs and the enhancement in the computational power of workstations, finite element method (FEM) simulations [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17] are also conducted in addition to laboratory experiments. These simulations are used to analyze complex thermo-mechanical states [1,4,6], heat flow for a variety of coating materials [3], the effect of cooling channels on cooling efficiency [2], or TBC damage during impact loads [8].…”