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High-temperature component, especially a turbine blade, and process for producing this component

US5409781A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateJun 4, 1993
Grant dateApr 25, 1995
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Expiry dateJun 4, 2013

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10T428/12174
  • WIPO fieldMaterials, metallurgy
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

A turbine blade including a blade and blade foot. The blade foot is formed by a ductile material and the blade comprises a material which is brittle compared to the ductile material but resistant to high temperature. The two materials are alloys of the same base compositions but differ as to presence and/or quantity of at least one doping element. The alloys can be hot-compacted with the formation of a transition zone joining the blade and blade root wherein fine crystallites of the blade root interpenetrate coarse crystallites of the blade. The two materials can comprise a gamma-titanium aluminide containing 0.5 to 8 atomic percent of a dopant. The turbine blade exhibits outstanding mechanical properties at high temperatures, good ductility at room temperature and a long service life.

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