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US 8,475,882 B2Granted
Titanium aluminide application process and article with titanium aluminide surface
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsJon Conrad Schaeffer, Krishnamurthy Anand, Sundar Amancherla, Eklayva Calla
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Abstract
A titanium aluminide application process and article with a titanium aluminide surface are disclosed. The process includes cold spraying titanium aluminide onto an article within a treatment region to form a titanium aluminide surface. The titanium aluminide surface includes a refined gamma/alpha2 structure and/or the titanium aluminide is cold sprayed from a solid feedstock of a pre-alloyed powder.
Claims17
A titanium aluminide application process, comprising:
- cleaning within a treatment region prior to cold spraying;
- cold spraying titanium aluminide onto an article, within the treatment region, to form a titanium aluminide surface;
- wherein the titanium aluminide surface includes a refined gamma/alpha2structure and the article is a turbine component.
A titanium aluminide application process, comprising:
- cold spraying titanium aluminide onto an article within a treatment region to form a titanium aluminide surface;
- wherein the titanium aluminide cold sprayed is from a solid feedstock of a pre-alloyed powder.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.