Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Limited

Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd.

Mitsubishi Power, Ltd.

Yoshifumi Okajima

Taiji Torigoe

Masahiko Mega

Shuji Tanigawa

Daisuke Kudo

Satoshi Hada

Masamitsu Kuwabara

Keizo Tsukagoshi

Yoshitaka Uemura

Naotoshi Okaya

Ikuo Okada

Ichiro Nagano

Kunihiko Waki

Saki Matsuo

Hiroshi Ishikawa

Yasuoki Tomita

Yoshiaki Inoue

Hiroyuki Kimura

Eisaku Ito

Kazutaka Mori

Kentaro Suzuki

Koichi Tanimoto

Shunsuke Torii

Hiroyuki Mitsui

Junichiro Masada

Hideaki Kaneko

Tatsuya Iwasaki

Atsushi Moriwaki

Hidemichi Koyabu

Hidetaka Okui

Yasuhiko Tsuru

Hitoshi Tamaki

Shigenari Horie

Hiroshi Makigano

Yoshimasa Takaoka

Hiroki Komuro

Kazuma Takeno

Shusuke Sakuma

Toshishige Ai

Sosuke Kawasumi

A ceramic coating according to at least one embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a bond coat layer formed on a substrate; and a ceramic layer formed on the bond coat layer. The ceramic layer has a first region in contact with an interface between the ceramic layer and the bond coat layer and a second region father away from the interface than the first region from the interface. In a cross-section along a thickness direction of the ceramic layer, the number of crack intersection points at which two or more cracks intersect per unit area in the ceramic layer is larger in the first region than in the second region.

Ceramic coating, turbine component, and gas turbine

A thermal barrier coating includes a bond coat layer deposited on a substrate, and a ceramic layer deposited on the bond coat layer. The ceramic layer includes a first layer having a porosity of 10% or more and 15% or less, and a second layer having a porosity of 0.5% or more and 9.0% or less and deposited on the first layer.

Thermal barrier coating, turbine member, gas turbine, and method for producing thermal barrier coating

A turbine rotor blade includes a blade body and a tip shroud on a tip of the blade body. The tip shroud has a contact block configured to face a tip shroud of an adjacent turbine rotor blade, and the contact block includes a base material, an oxidation resistant coating on the surface of the base material, and a hard wear resistant coating on the surface of the oxidation resistant coating.

Turbine rotor blade and contact surface manufacturing method

The present invention provides a thermal barrier coated component, monitoring or evaluation of the soundness of which is able to be adequately carried out on the basis of the thermal boundary conditions that are detected by a sensor. A thermal barrier coated component according to the present invention comprises: a base material; a first bond coat layer that is a metal bonding layer formed on the base material; a sensor unit that comprises a sensor and a conductive wire, which are formed on the first bond coat layer; a second bond coat layer that is formed on the first bond coat layer so as to cover at least the sensor unit, while having a surface roughness higher than that of the first bond coat layer; and a top coat layer that is formed on the second bond coat layer.

Thermal barrier coated component and method for producing thermal barrier coated component

A turbine stator vane includes; an airfoil portion; a shroud disposed on at least one of the side of a tip end portion or the side of a root end portion of the airfoil portion; and a protruding portion protruding toward the opposite side to the airfoil portion across a gas path surface in a radial direction. The shroud includes: a circumferential-direction passage disposed at the side of a trailing edge and extending in a circumferential direction; and a plurality of trailing edge end portion passages arranged in the circumferential direction at the side of the trailing edge, each trailing edge end portion passage having a first end portion connected to the circumferential-direction passage and a second end portion having an opening on a trailing edge end surface of the shroud. The circumferential-direction passage includes, in a cross-sectional view as seen in the circumferential direction, an oblique passage having a third end portion to protrude closer to the gas path surface toward the side of a leading edge, and a fourth end portion formed at the side of the trailing edge with respect to the third end portion, the oblique passage having an opening portion disposed on a trailing-edge side end surface of the protruding portion and closed by a lid portion, and a position, in an axial direction, of the first end portion where each trailing edge end portion passage connects to the circumferential-direction passage is positioned at the side of the leading edge with respect to a position of the trailing-edge side end surface of the protruding portion at a position where the protruding portion connects to the shroud.

Turbine stator vane, gas turbine, and method of producing turbine stator vane

A testing method of thermal barrier coating (TBC) is for evaluating the presence or absence of damage to TBC formed on a bending part on which compression stress acts. The method includes a test piece that includes a pair of arm parts, a bending part arranged between the pair of arm parts, and a TBC layer on a bending surface of the bending part; attaching the test piece to a compression testing device after preparing the test piece; and applying compression stress to the test piece in a direction for bringing the pair of arm parts close together after attaching the test piece with the compression testing device. The pair of arm parts are arranged so as to separate from each other from base end portions toward front end portions of the arm parts. The bending part is arranged between the base end portions.

Testing method and test piece of thermal barrier coating

A turbine blade, a gas turbine, an intermediate product of the turbine blade, and a method of manufacturing the turbine blade are disclosed. The turbine blade has a blade body having hollow shape, cavities defined inside the blade body, and a cooling passage that opens from the cavities to a rear end portion of the blade body. The cooling passage includes: a first passage on a third cavity side and having a width that becomes narrower from the third cavity side toward the rear end portion of the blade body; and a second passage on a rear end portion side of the blade body and having a width that is constant from the third cavity side toward the rear end portion of the blade body.

Turbine blade, gas turbine, intermediate product of turbine blade, and method of manufacturing turbine blade

A method of forming a sprayed coating includes preparing a spray target member having a surface on which openings of first ends of holes are formed, preparing a plurality of masking pins each of which comprises metal, and inserting each of the masking pins into a corresponding one of the holes so that each of the masking pins partially protrudes from the surface. The method also includes applying an adhesive agent for fixing the masking pins to the respective holes, to at least one of the holes or the masking pins, forming a ceramic layer by spraying on the surface of the spraying target member, the ceramic layer comprising a ceramic material, while the masking pins are fixed to the respective holes via the adhesive agent, and removing the masking pins from the holes after the spraying step.

Method of forming sprayed coating, high-temperature component for turbine, turbine, masking pin for forming sprayed coating, and masking member

A thermal barrier coating film includes a bond coat layer that is a metallic bond layer formed on a base material; a topcoat layer that is a ceramic-containing layer formed on the bond coat layer; and at least one of a protective layer and a protective substance. The protective layer is formed on the topcoat layer and mainly contains SrSO. The protective substance is provided in a plurality of void spaces included in the topcoat layer and mainly contains SrSO.

Thermal barrier coating film, turbine member, and thermal barrier coating method

A gas turbine startup method and device wherein low-pressure, medium-pressure, and high-pressure air bleed flow paths supply compressed air bled from low-pressure, medium-pressure, and high-pressure air bleed chambers, respectively, of a compressor as cooling air to a turbine. Low-pressure, medium-pressure, and high-pressure exhaust flow paths discharge the compressed air in the low-pressure, medium-pressure, and high-pressure air bleed flow paths, respectively to the turbine exhaust system, and the low-pressure, the medium-pressure, and the high-pressure exhaust flow paths are provided respectively with a low-pressure exhaust valve, a medium-pressure exhaust valve, and a high-pressure exhaust valve. When the gas turbine starts up, the high-pressure exhaust valve is opened before the startup state of the gas turbine reaches a region in which rotation stall occurs.

Gas turbine startup method and device

A thermal barrier coating includes a highly porous layer and a dense layer. The highly porous layer is formed on a heat-resistant base, is made of ceramic, has pores, has a layer thickness of equal to or larger than 0.3 mm and equal to or smaller than 1.0 mm, and has a pore ratio of equal to or higher than 1 vol % and equal to or lower than 30 vol %. The dense layer is formed on the highly porous layer, is made of ceramic, has a pore ratio of equal to or lower than 0.9 vol % that is equal to or lower than the pore ratio of the highly porous layer, and has a layer thickness of equal to or smaller than 0.05 mm.

Thermal barrier coating, turbine member, and gas turbine

An insert assembly () includes an insert (), a reinforcing member (), and a retaining member (). The insert () is fixed to an end of an airfoil body () on one side in a radial direction. The reinforcing member () is disposed adjacent to an end of the insert () on the other side in the radial direction and enhances the rigidity of the insert (). The retaining member () is fixed to an end of the airfoil body () on the other side in the radial direction, and allows the insert () to be positioned relative to the airfoil body () in a direction orthogonal to the radial direction.

Insert assembly, airfoil, gas turbine, and airfoil manufacturing method

A retainer that protrudes from an inner shroud of a vane to a radially inner side and extends in a circumferential direction is formed with an opening that passes through the retainer in an axial direction and defines a space through which air flows. A width of the opening in the circumferential direction is wider than a width of a vane body in the circumferential direction at a radially inner end of the vane body at a position of the retainer in the axial direction.

Vane, gas turbine provided with the same, method of manufacturing vane, and method of remodeling vane

A method for producing a thermal spray powder includes: a preparing step of preparing a powder mixture containing a first particle made from zirconia-based ceramic containing a first additive agent and a second particle made from zirconia-based ceramic containing a second additive agent, the powder mixture having a 10% cumulative particle diameter of more than 0 &#x3bc;m and not more than 10 &#x3bc;m; and a secondary-particle producing step of producing a plurality of secondary particles each of which includes the first particle and the second particle sintered with each other.

Method of producing thermal spray powder, manufacture apparatus of thermal spray powder, and thermal spray powder produced by the producing method

An erosion test apparatus includes a combustor configured to obtain a combustion gas by mixing and combusting compressed air and a fuel, and an erodent supply unit configured to supply an erodent to the combustion gas. The erosion test apparatus further includes an accommodation support unit configured to accommodate and support a test piece having a front surface coated through thermal barrier coating, and an accelerator configured to accelerate the combustion gas including the erodent to collide with the test piece.

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Yoshifumi Okajima