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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 07, 2010
Filed:
Jan. 31, 2008
Stephen Francis Bancheri, Albany, NY (US);
Frederic Joseph Klug, Schenectady, NY (US);
Bernard Patrick Bewlay, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Stephen Francis Bancheri, Albany, NY (US);
Frederic Joseph Klug, Schenectady, NY (US);
Bernard Patrick Bewlay, Niskayuna, NY (US);
General Electric Company, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Abstract
Compositions suitable for use as cores and shell molds for casting of reactive metal alloys, and casting processes for producing components from such alloys. The composition contains a sintered particulate material of hafnia and at least one additional metal oxide in amounts to yield a ceramic composition containing up to 70 molar percent of hafnia, wherein the additional metal oxide is a rare-earth oxide, the sintered particulate material contains first and second phases, the first phase is the rare-earth oxide and hafnia in solid solution, the second phase is a compound of the rare-earth oxide and hafnia, and the second phase is less reactive with the reactive metal alloy than the first phase.