General Electric Company

Mike Eugene Mechley

Andrew Philip Woodfield

Eric Allen Ott

Clifford Earl Shamblen

Richard G Menzies

Edward Lee Raymond

Shesh Krishna Srivatsa

Peter Wayte

Barbara Ann Link

Terrence Owen Dyer

Richard Frederick Halter

Francis Mario Visalli

Richard Gordon Menzies

An elongated rod assembly is made by preparing a plurality of rods. Each rod is prepared by the steps of furnishing at least one nonmetallic precursor compound, thereafter chemically reducing the precursor compounds to produce the metallic material, and thereafter consolidating the metallic material to form the rod, wherein the rod has a rod length equal to the assembly length. The rods are bundled together to form a bundled rod assembly. The rod assembly may be used as a consumable feedstock in a melting-and-casting operation.

Method for making and using a rod assembly

A forging blank of a forging nickel-base superalloy is forged in a forging press having forging dies made of a die nickel-base superalloy. The forging is accomplished by heating the forging blank to a forging-blank starting temperature of from about 1850&#xb0; F. to about 1950&#xb0; F., heating the forging dies to a forging-die starting temperature of from about 1500&#xb0; F. to about 1750&#xb0; F., placing the forging blank into the forging press and between the forging dies, and forging the forging blank at the forging-blank starting temperature using the forging dies at the forging-die starting temperature, to produce a forging.

Quasi-isothermal forging of a nickel-base superalloy

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Mike Eugene Mechley