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Dual structure turbine blade
Assignee: Honeywell International Inc
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Filing: 1988-11-10
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Granted: 1990-05-01
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Expires: 2008-11-10
Abstract
Abstract A single crystal turbine blade has a portion of its attachment section layered with a fine grained, poly-crystalline alloy. The blade is prepared by casting a single crystal body with an undersized attachment section, and then layering the attachment section with the poly-crystalline superalloy to form a composite structure. Layering is preferably accomplished by plasma spraying the body with the superalloy, and hot isostatically compacting the sprayed superalloy to minimize porosity. The composite structure is then heat treated to develop an optimized microstructure in the dual alloy attachment section. The polycrystalline material in the attachment section may be machined to a firtree shape for mounting in a turbine wheel. The resulting turbine blade has improved life resulting from reduced low cycle, low temperature fatigue susceptibility of, and crack growth in, the composite attachment section.
Inventors
- 👤 Lloyd W. Wilson
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
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Last Synchronized
2026-11-09 04:41
CPC Classifications
F; F01; F01D; F01D5/00; F01D5/30; F01D5/3092; F01D5/12; F01D5/28; F01D5/286; Y; Y02; Y02T; Y02T50/00; Y02T50/60; Y10; Y10T; Y10T29/00; Y10T29/49; Y10T29/49316; Y10T29/49336; Y10T29/49337
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 20
Claim 1
Independent Claim
35 words
A composite turbine blade structure, comprising: a single crystal body having an airfoil section and an attachment section; and a layer of a polycrystalline alloy bonded onto at least a portion of said attachment section.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
35 words
A composite turbine blade structure, comprising: a single crystal body having an airfoil section and an attachment section; and a layer of a polycrystalline alloy bonded onto at least a portion of said attachment section.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
13 words
The turbine blade of claim 1 wherein the polycrystalline alloy is MAR M-247.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
33 words
The turbine blade of claim 2 wherein the grain size of the polycrystalline alloy is less than about ASTM 6 and the layer has a thickness of from about 0.01 to 0.10 inches.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
12 words
The turbine blade of claim 1 wherein the polycrystalline alloy is U-720.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
27 words
The turbine blade of claim 1 wherein the orientation of the single crystal material has its (001) axis parallel to the long axis of the blade section.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
41 words
A process for manufacturing a composite turbine blade, comprising the steps of: casting a single crystal body having an airfoil section and an attachment section; plasma spray-coating the attachment section with a polycrystalline alloy layer; and metallurgically refining the polycrystalline layer.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
41 words
A process for manufacturing a composite turbine blade, comprising the steps of: casting a single crystal body having an airfoil section and an attachment section; plasma spray-coating the attachment section with a polycrystalline alloy layer; and metallurgically refining the polycrystalline layer.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
19 words
The process of claim 6 wherein said refining step includes consolidating the polycrystalline alloy layer by hot isostatic pressing.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
20 words
The process of claim 6 wherein said refining step includes microstructural optimization of the composite blade by heat treatment processing.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
30 words
The process of claim 6 wherein said refining step includes hot isostatic pressing followed by heat treating so that the microstructure of the polycrystalline layer is consolidated and fine grained.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
26 words
The process of claim 6 wherein said single crystal body has a nominal composition of SC180 and said polycrystalline alloy has a composition of MAR M-247.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
30 words
The process of claim 10 wherein said refining step includes isostatic pressing the composite blade at about 2230° F. and 15,000 pounds per square inch pressure for about 4 hours.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
22 words
The process of claim 11 further including heat treating the hot pressed blade at about 1600° F. to refine the polycrystalline microstructure.
Claim 15
Dependent Claim
34 words
The process of claim 6 wherein said polycrystalline alloy has a composition of U-720 and said refining step includes heat treating the composite blade at about 1600° F. and again at about 1400° F.
Claim 16
Dependent Claim
33 words
The process of claim 6 wherein said single crystal body is a nickel base superalloy and said polycrystalline alloy is selected from the group consisting of MAR M-247, U-720, IN-100, Astroloy and Waspoloy.
Claim 17
Dependent Claim
51 words
A process for increasing the fatigue life of a turbine blade comprising the steps of: casting a single crystal body having an airfoil section and an attachment section; plasma spraying a layer of a polycrystalline alloy onto the attachment section; and hot isostatic pressing the body to consolidate the polycrystalline alloy.
Claim 18
Dependent Claim
51 words
A process for increasing the fatigue life of a turbine blade comprising the steps of: casting a single crystal body having an airfoil section and an attachment section; plasma spraying a layer of a polycrystalline alloy onto the attachment section; and hot isostatic pressing the body to consolidate the polycrystalline alloy.
Claim 19
Dependent Claim
22 words
The process of claim 15 further including the step of heat treating the blade to optimize the microstructure of the polycrystalline layer.
Claim 20
Dependent Claim
26 words
The process of claim 16 wherein said polycrystalline alloy is MAR M-247 and said heat treating is performed between about 1200° F. and about 2300° F.
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