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Precision Grinding and Polishing of Aero-Engine Blade Thermal Barrier Coatings: Point Cloud Data Processing and Spline Path Optimization |
CAI Zhenhua1, SONG Xiaohang1, DONG Shujuan1, CHEN Tingyang1, TANG Zuopeng2, ZHOU Ke2 |
1. Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China;
2. Dongfang Turbine Co., Ltd., Dongfang Electric Corporation, Deyang 618000, China |
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Abstract Thermal barrier coating (TBC) is a critical high-temperature protection technology applied to hot-section components of military and civilian aero-engines. Composed of a ceramic oxide top layer and a metallic bond coat, it significantly reduces the substrate operating temperature and offers technical advantages such as high hardness, excellent stability, resistance to high-temperature corrosion, reduces fuel consumption, and improves engine efficiency and service life. After initial preparation via atmospheric plasma spraying, the surface roughness of the coating is relatively high (approximately Ra10 μm). In production, grinding and polishing post-processing are commonly employed to reduce it to the required range (around Ra1.6 μm). This study proposes a spline path curve generation and feature point sampling method based on the RANSAC segmentation principle, applicable to robotic automated grinding and polishing of TBC on small turbine blades in aero-engines. The method utilizes a 3D vision sensor to scan the blade surface in real time, generating point cloud data. Through point cloud processing and B-spline curve fitting algorithms, a full-coverage grinding and polishing path for the high-temperature coating on the aero-engine blade surface is generated. Experimental verification demonstrates that this method reduces the coating surface roughness to below Ra0.7 μm while maintaining effective coating thickness, achieving precision grinding and polishing of TBCs on aero-engine blade surfaces.
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PACS: V23;TG |
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