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During the friction between rotating gas turbine blades and internal body envelope on which is sprayed by the “Atmospheric Plasma Spraying” process a protective porous sacrificial material, there is a blades wear or material displacement. These phenomena which appear during the thermal dilation of the turbine rotor cause a gap between the body casing and the blades top. This clearance lets the combustion...