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US 12,076,885 B2Granted
Repair process using networked ceramic nanofibers
AssigneeRtx Corporation
InventorZhongfen Ding
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Abstract
A repair process for an article such as an airfoil includes providing an article that has a substrate and a ceramic barrier coating disposed on the substrate, where the ceramic barrier coating has a damaged region, abrading the damaged region to provide dimple in the ceramic barrier coating, wherein a remaining region of the ceramic barrier coating adjacent the dimple remains intact, and depositing a patch of networked ceramic nanofibers in the dimple.
Claims7
An article comprising:
- a substrate;
- a ceramic barrier coating disposed on the substrate, the ceramic barrier coating including a dimple, the ceramic barrier coating having a porous columnar microstructure that includes microstructural columns that define elongated pores there between;
- and
- a patch of networked ceramic nanofibers disposed in the dimple, the networked ceramic nanofibers comprising filaments that are non-linear and intertwined so as to form a porous network, the filaments being bonded together at locations where the filaments contact each other, and wherein the networked ceramic nanofibers extend into the elongated pores and interlock with the elongated pores and surface roughness of the dimple such that the networked ceramic nanofibers are secured to the ceramic barrier coating.
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