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Conventionally, the small portion of the total energy produced in internal combustion engine is converted to useful work. More than half of this energy is expelled from the system through frictional losses, cooling the engine components, exhaust, etc. The most effective way of increasing the percentage of useful work is to reduce the energy loss. One way of reducing the energy loss or increasing the efficiency of the engine is by using thermal barrier coatings (TBC) on the various elements of the combustion chamber like valves, piston, cylinder surfaces, and rings. For this design we add varying thickness ranging up to 1000 micrometers of metallic material to grey cast iron alloy pistons. The ceramic material used is yttria stabilized zirconia. The thermal and static analysis is performed on aluminium alloy pistons coated with the thickness 300,500,700 micrometers for all the different materials. After performing the complete analysis we compare heat flux of the coated pistons to that of non coated pistons.