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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 02, 2002
Filed:
Oct. 12, 2000
William R. Stowell, Rising Sun, IN (US);
Robert A. Johnson, Simpsonville, SC (US);
Andrew J. Skoog, West Chester, OH (US);
Joseph Thomas Begovich, West Chester, OH (US);
Thomas Walter Rentz, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Jane Ann Murphy, Middletown, OH (US);
Ching-Pang Lee, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Dainel P. Ivkovich, Jr., Fairfield, OH (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A method of repairing a thermal barrier coating on a component designed for use in a hostile thermal environment, such as turbine, combustor and augmentor components of a gas turbine engine. The method more particularly involves repairing a thermal barrier coating on a component that has suffered localized spallation of the thermal barrier coating. After cleaning the surface area of the component exposed by the localized spallation, a ceramic paste comprising a ceramic powder in a binder is applied to the surface area of the component. The binder is then reacted to yield a ceramic-containing repair coating that covers the surface area of the component and comprises the ceramic powder in a matrix of a material formed when the binder was reacted. The binder is preferably a ceramic precursor material that can be converted immediately to a ceramic or allowed to thermally decompose over time to form a ceramic, such that the repair coating has a ceramic matrix. The repair method can be performed while the component remains installed, e.g., in a gas turbine engine. Immediately after the reaction step, the gas turbine engine can resume operation during which the binder is further reacted/converted and the strength of the repair coating increases.