A collection of 21 papers from The American Ceramic Society's 36th International Conference on Advanced Ceramics and Composites, held in Daytona Beach, Florida, January 22-27, 2012. This issue includes papers presented in the Advanced Ceramic Coatings for Structural, Environmental, and Functional Applications; Materials for Extreme Environments; and Next Generation Technologies for Innovative Surface Coatings.

Dongming Zhu is a senior Materials Research Engineer at Army Research Laboratory, Vehicle Technology Directorate, and Durability and Protective Coatings Branch of Structures and Materials Division, at NASA Glenn Research Center. His expertise covers the areas of thermal conductivity, lattice defects and transport, high temperature oxidation, high-heat-flux testing, and mechanical behavior of ceramic coating systems, with an emphasis on experimental investigation and analytical modeling of processing, thermal fatigue and fracture behavior of advanced protective coatings and composites. His major contributions include the development of low conductivity thermal barrier coatings for turbine airfoil applications, 1650°C thermal/environmental barrier coatings for SiC/SiC ceramic matrix composite turbine vane and combustor liner applications. He has authored more than 100 archival publications and three patents. He is a member of the American Ceramic Society and ASM, International, has been a lead organizer for several International Symposia. He is currently the Chair-elect of the Engineering Ceramic Division of the American Ceramic Society, and an associate editor of the International Journal of Applied Ceramic Technology. He has received several awards from NASA and professional societies. He received his Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering and Materials Science from the University of Minnesota in 1996.

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Introduction xi

ADVANCED THERMAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL COATING PROCESSING AND CHARACTERIZATIONS

Multilayered Thermal Barrier Coating Architectures for High Temperature Applications 3
Douglas E. Wolfe, Michael P. Schmitt, Dongming Zhu, Amarendra K. Rai, and Rabi Bhattacharya

Foreign Object Damage (FOD) Behavior of EB-PVD Thermal Barrier Coatings (TBCs) in Airfoil Components 19
Jennifer Wright, D. Calvin Faucett, Matt Ayre, and Sung R. Choi

Solid Particle Erosion of Thermal Spray and Physical Vapour Deposition Thermal Barrier Coatings 37
F. Cernuschi, C. Guardamagna, L. Lorenzoni, S. Capelli, F. Bossi, R. Vaßen, and K. von Niessen

Effect of Hard Thin Film Coatings on Tribochemical Film Behavior under Lubricated Sliding Contact 47
C. Lorenzo-Martin, O. O. Ajayi, S. Torrel, N. Demas and G. R. Fenske

Rare Earth Oxides Pyrochlore Compounds by Soft Chemistry 57
A. Joulia, E. Renard, D. Tchou-Kien, M. Vardelle, and S. Rossignol

Degradation of (Ni.Pt)AI Coatings by Mixture of Sodium and Potassium Sulfate at 950°C 67
Le Zhou, Sriparna Mukherjee, and Yongho Sohn

Original In-Situ Method to Quantify the SiC Active Corrosion Rate and Active/Passive Transition in Ar/02 and Ar/H20 Gas Mixtures at Very High Temperatures 77
Mathieu Q. Brisebourg, Bernard Boilait, Francis Rebillat, and Francis Teyssandier

Silicon Carbide Nanotube Oxidation at High Temperatures 89
Nadia Ahlborg and Dongming Zhu

ADVANCED WEAR-CORROSION RESISTANT, NANO-COMPOSITE AND MULTI-FUNCTIONAL COATINGS

Evaluations of Multilayer Coatings for Galvanic Corrosion Resistance Applications—Oxide and Nitride Coatings on Carbon Steel 101
C. Qu, R. Kasica, R. Wei, E. McCarty, J. H. Fan, D. D. Edwards, G. Wynick, L Lin, Y. Liu, R. E. Miller, and X. W. Wang

Acoustic Field Assisted Drying of Electrophoretically Deposited Colloidal Coatings 115
Changzheng Ji and Houzheng Wu

THERMAL PROTECTION SYSTEMS

Testing of Candidate Rigid Heat Shield Materials at LHMEL for the Entry, Descent, and Landing Technology Development Project 129
Steven Sepka, Matthew Gasch, Robin A. Beck, and Susan White

Failure Mechanism of R-Type Temperature Sensor in Extreme Environments 157
Hongy Lin and Eric Allain

MATERIALS FOR EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS

Protection against Oxydation by CVD or SPS Coatings of Hafnium Carbide and Silicon Carbide on Carbon/Carbon Composites 163
A. Allemand, Y. Le Petitcorps, O. Szwedek, J. F. Epherre, N. Teneze, and P. David

Properties of Hot-Pressed Ti2AIN Obtained by SHS Process 171
L. Chlubny, J. Lis, M. M. Bucko, and D. Kata

A Comparative Study of Decomposition Kinetics in Max Phases at Elevated Temperature 179
I. M. Low and W. K. Pang

The Hardness of ZrB2 between 1373K and 2273 K 187
Jianye Wang, E. Feilden-lrving, Luc J. Vandeperre, and F. Giuliani

Microstructural Analysis of a C/ZrC Composites Produced by Melt Infiltration 197
Linhua Zou, Sergey Prikhodko, Timothy Stewart, Brian Williams, and Jenn-Ming Yang

TECHNOLOGIES FOR INNOVATIVE SURFACE COATINGS

Interactions between Amorphous Carbon Coatings and Engine Oil Additives: Prediction of the Friction Behavior using Optimized Artificial Neural Networks 209
Edgar Schulz, Thilo Breitsprecher, Yashar Musayev, Stephan Tremmel, Tim Hosenfeldt, Sandra Wartzack, and Harald Meerkamm

Control of Oxygen Content with Oxygen Gas Introduction in Cr(N,0) Thin Films Prepared by Pulsed Laser Deposition 225
K. Suzuki, T. Endo, T. Fukushima, A. Sato, T. Suzuki, T. Nakayama, H. Suematsu, and K. Niihara

Author Index 235