General Electric Company

David Joseph Mitchell

Bangalore Aswatha Nagaraj

Irene T Spitsberg

Christine Govern

Yuk-Chiu Lau

Brian Thomas Hazel

Kevin Leon Bruce

Hongyu Wang

Krishan Lal Luthra

Gregory Scot Corman

Peter Joel Meschter

Mark Stewart Schroder

Randall Richard Good

Christopher Grace

Arnold Thomas Henry

Jennifer Su Saak

Ronald Ralph Cairo

David Vincent Bucci

An article comprising a substrate formed of a silicon-comprising material, such as an article exposed to the hostile thermal environment of a gas turbine engine. The article further comprises an environmental barrier layer, e.g., an alkaline earth metal aluminosilicate, and a physical barrier layer overlying the environmental barrier layer. The physical barrier layer comprises zirconia or hafnia stabilized with an oxide of a metal selected from the group consisting of magnesium, calcium, scandium, yttrium, and lanthanide metals; and a low CTE oxide selected from the group consisting of niobia and tantala; and mixtures thereof. A method for preparing an environmental barrier coating system on a substrate formed of a silicon-comprising material is also disclosed.

Environmental barrier coating with physical barrier layer for silicon-comprising materials

A shroud support method and apparatus for a ceramic component of a gas turbine having: an outer shroud block having a coupling to a casing of the gas turbine; a spring mass damper attached to the outer shroud block and including a spring biased piston extending through said outer shroud block, wherein the spring mass damper applies a load to the ceramic component; and the ceramic component has a forward flange and an aft flange each attachable to the outer shroud block.

Support apparatus and method for ceramic matrix composite turbine bucket shroud

An article comprising a substrate formed of a silicon-comprising material, such as an article exposed to the hostile thermal environment of a gas turbine engine. The article further comprises an environmental barrier layer, e.g., an alkaline earth metal aluminosilicate, and a top coat comprising hafnia stabilized with from about 0.5 mole % to about 10 mole % of an oxide of a metal selected from the group consisting of magnesium, calcium, scandium, yttrium, and lanthanide metals, and mixtures thereof. The article optionally comprises a transition layer between the environmental barrier layer and the top coat. A method for preparing a thermal/environmental barrier coating on a substrate formed of a silicon-comprising material is also disclosed.

Thermal/environmental barrier coating for silicon-comprising materials

A shroud support apparatus for a ceramic component of a gas turbine having: an outer shroud block having a coupling to a casing of the gas turbine; a spring mass damper attached to the outer shroud block and including a spring biased piston extending through said outer shroud block, wherein the spring mass damper applies a load to the ceramic component; and the ceramic component has a forward flange and an aft flange each attachable to the outer shroud block.

An article comprising a substrate formed of a silicon-comprising material, such as an article exposed to the hostile thermal environment of a gas turbine engine. The article further comprises an environmental barrier layer, e.g., an alkaline earth metal aluminosilicate, and a top coat comprising zirconia or hafnia stabilized with up to about 10 mole % of an oxide of a metal selected from the group consisting of magnesium, calcium, scandium, yttrium, and lanthanide metals, and mixtures thereof. The article further comprises a transition layer between the environmental barrier layer and the top coat, the transition layer comprising zirconia or hafnia stabilized with up to about 10 mole % of an oxide of a metal selected from the group consisting of magnesium, calcium, scandium, yttrium, and lanthanide metals; and a low CTE oxide selected from the group consisting of niobia and tantala; and mixtures thereof. A method for preparing a thermal/environmental barrier coating system on a substrate formed of a silicon-comprising material is also disclosed.

Thermal/environmental barrier coating with transition layer for silicon-comprising materials

An article comprising a substrate formed of a silicon-comprising material, such as an article exposed to the hostile thermal environment of a gas turbine engine. The article further comprises an environmental barrier layer, e.g., an alkaline earth metal aluminosilicate, and a top coat comprising zirconia or hafnia stabilized with an oxide of a metal selected from the group consisting of magnesium, calcium, scandium, yttrium, and lanthanide metals, and mixtures thereof. The article further comprises a transition layer between the environmental barrier layer and the top coat, the transition layer comprising zirconia or hafnia stabilized with an oxide of a metal selected from the group consisting of magnesium, calcium, scandium, yttrium, and lanthanide metals; and a low CTE oxide selected from the group consisting of niobia and tantala; and mixtures thereof. A method for preparing a thermal/environmental barrier coating system on a substrate formed of a silicon-comprising material is also disclosed.

A method facilitates assembling a stator assembly for a turbine engine. The method comprises positioning a shroud fabricated from a ceramic matrix composite material adjacent a metallic stator block, and coupling the shroud to the stator block using a coupling arrangement such that a predetermined radial clearance is defined between the shroud and a rotor assembly coupled radially inward thereof.

Methods and apparatus for coupling ceramic matrix composite turbine components

A method for manufacturing an article for use in a high-temperature environment, and an article for use in such an environment, are presented. The method comprises providing a substrate; selecting a desired vertical crack density for a protective coating to be deposited on the substrate; providing a powder, wherein the powder has a size range selected to provide a coating having the desired vertical crack density; and applying a thermal-sprayed coating to the substrate, the coating having the desired vertical crack density, wherein the powder is used as a raw material for the coating.

Method for manufacturing articles for high temperature use, and articles made therewith

A coating for silicon based materials such as those used in high temperature, aqueous environments. An aspect of the invention is directed to an article including a silicon based substrate, a bond coat comprising silicon, and a barrier coat. The barrier coat includes an aluminate such as an alkaline earth metal aluminate or a rare earth aluminate. The barrier coat may be an intermediate coat between the bond coat and a top coat, or it may be the top coat.

Aluminate coating for a silicon containing substrate

A coating for a silicon based material such as those used in high temperature environments. An aspect of the invention is directed to an environmental barrier coating including a silicon bond coat, and intermediate coat, and a top coat. The intermediate coat may comprise tantalum aluminate, niobium aluminate, or a mixture of the two. The intermediate coat is resistant to solid-state suburface reactions with the bond coat and the top coat and is substantially inert to reactions with silica at high temperatures.

Environmental barrier coating

A process for depositing a ceramic coating system for Si-containing materials, particularly those for articles exposed to high temperatures. The process is particularly applicable to depositing a compositionally-graded coating system comprising multiple ceramic layers with differing compositions, including a dense, strain-tolerant, vertically-cracked YSZ-containing ceramic layer deposited on a ceramic layer having a composition that is a mixture of YSZ and either mullite or BSAS. The process entails depositing the YSZ-containing ceramic layer using a plasma spraying technique while maintaining the substrate at a temperature so as not to form horizontal cracks in the coating system, but still maintain the dense vertically-cracked structure of the YSZ-containing ceramic layer for strain tolerance.

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David Joseph Mitchell