Office National D'etudes Et De Recherches Aerospatiales

Onera (office National D'etudes Et De Recherches Aerospatiales)

Snecma

Societe Nationale D'etude Et De Construction De Moteurs D'aviation

Snecma Moteurs

Office National D'etudes Et De Recherche Aerospatiales (onera)

Onera

Societe Sochata

Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique

Safran Aircraft Engines

Pierre J Josso

Marie-Pierre Bacos

Serge Alperine

Serge Naveos

Florin Paun

Jason Nadler

Marie Pierre Bacos

Justine Menuey

Andre Hubert Malie

Pascal Fabrice Bilhe

Serge Alexandre Alperine

Jean-Paul Fournes

Jacques Louis Leger

Jason Hayes Nadler

Annie Pasquet

Stéphan Megtert

Roger Valle

Olivier Dessornes

Catherine Rio

Eric Berger

Benoît Girard

Carine Hoffmann

Pierre Steinmetz

Anne Constantini-Friant

Denis Georges Manesse

Claude Duret-Thual

Isabelle V Gossart

Ariel Moriel

Stéphane Gasser

Stéphane Landais

Fayçal Bouamrane

Thomas Bouvet

Alain Rafray

Nicolas Auffray

Régis Bouchet

Jérôme Lozat

Vincent Marcadon

Myriam Douin

Alexandra Boyer

Aurélie Gregoire

Sébastien Mercier

Alain Rafay

Ariel Morel

Serge Navéos

Pascal Bilhe

Stephane Gasser

Aurelie Gregoire

Sebastien Mercier

The invention relates to a method for producing a nickel aluminide coating on a metal substrate. The method includes the following steps: a) coating the substrate with a nickel deposit; b) applying an aluminum sheet onto the nickel deposit from step a) so as to form an assembly made up of the substrate coated with the nickel deposit and the aluminum sheet; and c) subjecting said assembly to heat treatment at a temperature that is lower than the melting point of aluminum, and at a low pressure so as to induce a reaction between the aluminum and the nickel and thus form a &#x3b2;-NiAl nickel aluminide layer mounted on a nickel layer. The invention is particularly of use for protecting the materials used in turbines of aircraft engines.

Method for producing a nickel aluminide coating on a metal substrate, and part having one such coating

The invention relates to a process for fabricating a high-precision object made of at least one inorganic material, comprising the following steps: using a high-resolution photolithography process, employing X-rays or UV rays depending on the desired degree of precision, in a chosen direction Z, to form a negative mold, which does not deform at the microscale during the steps of the process, in a material able to withstand a step for forming the object by dry deposition and capable of either being removed without altering the object fabricated or being separated from said object; choosing, independently of the normal redox potential of its constituent elements, at least one inorganic material from the set of materials that can be deposited by dry deposition and that allow the object to be fabricated to meet its thermomechanical and environmental specifications; and forming, by means of the non-deformable negative mold, the object to be fabricated by dry deposition of said at least one inorganic material, thereby allowing an object to be fabricated with better than microscale precision, especially with respect to the angle between the walls generated by the dry deposition and said direction Z. The invention is preferably applied to the fabrication of high-precision micromechanical objects, in particular in the aeronautical and clock-/watch-making fields.

Process for fabricating high-precision objects by high-resolution lithography and dry deposition and objects thus obtained

Method, apparatus, and system for preparing a cellular material based on hollow metal beads. According to the description, at least one bead chain in which said hollow metal beads are linked to one another in pairs by means of an articulation is used as elementary structure constituting the cellular material.

Method for preparing a cellular material based on hollow metal beads

A method for forming a protective coating containing aluminum on the surface of a metal part, wherein the part is contacted with a carburizer made of an aluminum alloy, at a treatment temperature and in a chamber, the atmosphere of which contains an active gas which reacts with the carburizer to form a gaseous aluminum halide, which decomposes upon contacting the part while depositing aluminum metal thereon. In the method the aluminum alloy of the carburizer includes at least one element, zirconium and/or hafnium, the active gas reacting with the carburizer to also form a halide of the reactive element which decomposes upon contacting the part while depositing the element thereon at the same time as the aluminum.

Method for forming a protective coating containing aluminum on the surface of a metal part

The method according to the invention comprises the following operations:

Process for protecting the surface of a substrate of intermetallic alloy with a titanium aluminide base against corrosion

The invention relates to a method for forming a protective coating against high-temperature oxidation on a surface of a refractory composite material based on silicon and niobium, wherein chromium present on the surface to be protected is reacted with a reactive gas which contains silicon and oxygen in order to produce a composite coating having two phases, a first phase of which is an oxide phase based on silica which has viscoplastic properties and a second phase of which is based on silicon, chromium and oxygen, and wherein the first phase and second phase are coalesced at high temperature, which allows a protective coating to be formed in which the second phase acts as a reservoir to reform, during operation, the first phase by means of reaction with an oxidising gas. The invention is preferably used in the field of aeronautical engines.

Method for forming a protective coating against high-temperature oxidation on a refractory composite material based on silicon and niobium

The invention relates to a method of producing and joining superalloy balls by means of brazing and to objects produced with such joints. According to one aspect of the invention, an alloy powder covered with a brazing solder is bonded to a spherical core and subsequently transformed into a continuous alloy layer by means of brazing.

Method of producing and joining superalloy balls by means of brazing and objects produced with such joints

A structural element used for attenuating aviation turbine noise is provided with pores () embodied in the form of cylindrical channels which are open on the first ends inside the turbine housing and closed on the opposite ends thereof, wherein the diameter (D) of each channel ranges approximately from 0.1 to 0.3 mm, each channel is remote at least along one part of the length thereof from the closest neighbors at a minimum distance ranging approximately from 0.02 to 0.3 mm and the ratio between the channel length and diameter thereof is of the order of 10.

Porous metal bodies used for attenuating aviation turbine noise

The invention relates to a method of brazing a Ti&#x2014;Al alloy. According to the invention, a layer of nickel () is disposed between a part () which is made from titanium aluminide and a brazing sheet (), such as to enable: the aforementioned part () to be brazed to another metallic material () without the aluminium diffusing from one to the other; and a stable link with good mechanical strength to be produced. The invention can be used for the assembly of aircraft engine parts which are made from titanium aluminide and nickel-based superalloy.

Method of brazing a Ti-Al alloy

This relates to an improvement to the process of aluminization or activated cementation in which a donor cement containing the aluminium is attacked at high temperature and in a neutral or reducing atmosphere by a gaseous ammonium halide to form a gaseous aluminium halide which decomposes on contact with a nickel-based substrate depositing aluminium metal thereon. According to the invention the aluminium halide is at least partly replaced by a zirconium halide leading to the inclusion of zirconium in the deposit. Improvement in the protection of the hot parts of aircraft engines made of nickel-based superalloy. No figure is to be published.

Process for forming a protective coating containing aluminium and zirconium on a metal

Hollow metal spheres are heated in a high vacuum in the presence of an organic substance, at a temperature at least equal to the melting point of a eutectic between carbon and the metallic constituents of the said spheres.

Process for the pressureless sintering of metal alloys; and application to the manufacture of hollow spheres

In order to protect a monocrystalline superalloy rich in rhenium against corrosion whilst avoiding the formation of progressive secondary reaction zones, a layer () formed of tungsten and cobalt is deposited on its surface before aluminisation treatment.

Protective coating for monocrystalline superalloy

The invention concerns a method wherein the substrate () to be coated is immersed in an autocatalytic chemical deposit bath (), for example nickel, contained in a stainless steel vessel () and wherein can be optionally mixed a suspended MCrAlY alloy, so as to form a metal deposit (nickel) wherein are optionally included powder particles. The invention is characterised in that, to provide a prolonged operation of the bath, it consists in measuring with a voltmeter () the difference of potential between the substrate () and a reference electrode () immersed in the bath (), and in imposing between the substrate () and the vessel () an electric current produced by a generator (), said current being adjusted by a regulator () so as to maintain said potential difference at a selected value.

Method for forming on a metallic substrate a sulphur-free metallic coating

The invention concerns a method comprising a step which consists in producing, on a precursor alloy powder containing at least the elements Cr, Al and Y, using a chemical or electrolytic deposition bath, a deposition containing at least a modifying element such as platinum, palladium, ruthenium or rhenium. The modifying element enhances the capacity of the coating to form from phase &bgr;, by exposure to oxygen at high temperature, an adhesive alumina surface barrier. The invention is useful for protecting against corrosion and oxidation at high temperatures aviation turbine blades.

Method for producing a metal alloy powder such as MCRALY and coatings obtained with same

A thermal barrier coating for a superalloy part used, in particular, in turbomachines comprises a ceramic coating and a sub-layer interposed between the superalloy substrate and the ceramic coating, the sub-layer being composed of a nickel and/or cobalt aluminide containing at least one platinum-like metal and at least one metal for promoting the formation of a layer of oxide constituted by the alpha-allotropic variety of alumina.

Thermal barrier coating with improved sub-layer and parts coated with

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