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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 10, 2002
Filed:
Jul. 21, 2000
David V. Rigney, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Antonio F. Maricocchi, Loveland, OH (US);
David J. Wortman, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Robert W. Bruce, Loveland, OH (US);
Joseph D. Rigney, Milford, OH (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for producing a thermal barrier coating system on an article that will be subjected to a hostile environment. The thermal barrier coating system is composed of a metallic bond coat and a ceramic thermal barrier coating having a columnar grain structure. The method generally entails forming the bond coat on the surface of a component, and then grit blasting the bond coat with an abrasive media having a particle size of greater than 80 mesh. The component is then supported within a coating chamber containing at least two ingots of the desired ceramic material. An absolute pressure of greater than 0.014 mbar is established within the chamber containing oxygen and an inert gas. Thereafter, the ceramic ingots are vaporized with an electron beam such that the vapor deposits on the surface of the component to form a layer of the ceramic material on the surface.