Transient high heat load tests on tungsten coating by high-intensity current pulsed electron beam

Abstract Three kinds of tungsten coatings are fabricated by means of APS and CVD, and evaluated by transient high heat load tests by 25 high-intensity current pulsed electron beam pulses with a duration of 0.2 ms and power densities of 0.4, 0.6 and 0.8 GW/m 2 . Remelting and solidification are found on post-test APS-W coating. However, cracks are developed for the same power densities for the CVD-W coating. APS-W coatings have about 20 times mass loss of CVD-W coating. The mass loss is related to the peak surface temperature of the APS-W coating exceeding the tungsten melting point (3410 °C) during electron beam irradiation. The CVD-W coating during testing was only 1000 °C.