“…In this context, research laboratories and engine manufacturers collaborate for the development of predictive numerical tools: experimental set-ups designed by or with the manufacturers provide research labs the much needed data to calibrate these tools. There exists a significant number of experimental facilities dedicated to the analysis of blade-tip/casing interactions [9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,11,17], some of them focusing on the interaction phenomenon itself [11,14,15], or on full-scale configurations with the intent to reproduce engine-like conditions [11,17]. Material characterizations have been carried out on different types of abradable coatings [18,13,19] that may be found within turbo-engines.…”