General Electric Company

Bala Srinivasan Parthasarathy

Yong Liang Liu

Yong Wu

Atanu Saha

Laurent Cretegny

Leonardo Ajdelsztajn

Gopi Chandran Ramachandran

Evan Jarrett Dolley

Guruprasad Sundararajan

Shalini Thimmegowda

Mayank Tiwari

Mamatha Nagesh

Ravi Agrawal

Methods for repairing flange bolt holes and the resulting flange bolt holes are provided. The methods and products include the incorporation of a coating system comprising a corrosion resistant layer, which can be formed by resistance plug welding, slurry or sol-gel processing, or thermal/cold spray processing. The corrosion resistant layer can be a super alloy or ceramic material and is different than the base material of the flange bolt hole. Corrosion of the flange bolt hole can be reduced or prevented from occurring with the use of the coating system.

Coated flange bolt hole and methods of forming the same

A silicone bond coat composition having a viscosity of less than 1,600 centistokes is applied to substantially all external surfaces of the article and then cured. A liquid silicone elastomer outer coat composition comprising a high viscosity first liquid silicone elastomer formulation and a low viscosity second liquid silicone elastomer formulation is then applied and cured to provide a protected article having a complex shape. Optimal coatings result from a careful balancing of component viscosities. In an embodiment, the first formulation has a viscosity greater than 300,000 centistokes, and the second formulation has a viscosity less than 6,000 centistokes, and the liquid silicone elastomer outer coat composition comprises from about 60 to about 40 percent by weight of the first formulation and from about 40 to about 60 percent by weight of the second liquid silicone elastomer formulation.

Method of protecting an article having a complex shape

A method for repairing a component is provided. The method comprises: tracing an electrode across a defect/damage on the component at a preselected distance from the component; feeding a first metal powder and a second metal powder into a discharging gap between the electrode and the component; controlling feed rates of the first and second metal powders separately; and electro-spark depositing the first and second metal powders to the component to form a hybrid metal coating. The first metal powder comprises a first metal or alloy with a Vickers hardness rating of about 70-200% of the Vickers hardness rating of the component. The second metal powder comprises a second metal or alloy having lubricating/anti-corrosion properties.

Method for repairing component

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Bengaluru, India

Bala Srinivasan Parthasarathy