Preparation and ablation behavior of HfC-SiC co-deposited coatings with different proportions

Abstract HfC-SiC coatings have promising applications in the field of ablation protection for carbon-carbon (C/C) composites. In this work, HfC-SiC coatings with different ratios were designed and successfully prepared by low pressure chemical vapor co-deposition using HfCl4-MTS-CH4-H2-Ar system under the guidance of thermodynamic calculations. The phase composition, microstructure, and ablation behavior of HfC-SiC coating with different phase proportions were investigated. The coating with HfC/SiC ratio of 1:1 showed the best ablation resistance after ablation for 90 s, and its mass and linear ablation rates of HfC-SiC coating was only 1.016 ± 0.12 mg/s and 0.998 ± 0.08 µm/s, respectively.