Abstract: The invention relates to a turbine blade or vane for a gas turbine, having a blade or vane root, which is successively adjoined by a platform region with a transversely running platform and then a blade or vane profile which is curved in the longitudinal direction, having a platform surface, which is provided at the platform and can be exposed to hot gas, and having at least one cavity, which is open on the root side, through which a coolant can flow and which extends through the blade or vane root and at least into the platform region and is surrounded by an inner wall, the contour of which, running in the platform region, is set back with respect to the contour running in the blade or vane root, so as to form a recess.

Abstract: The invention relates to a gas turbine blade or vane ring having a supporting structure and gas turbine blades or vanes secured to it. The gas turbine blades or vanes have a blade or vane root, which is successively adjoined by a platform and then a blade profile which is curved in the longitudinal direction, the blade or vane root running in the longitudinal direction of the blade profile, and the platform having two platform longitudinal edges which are bent parallel and run in the longitudinal direction. To provide an alternative gas turbine blade or vane ring with simplified assembly, it is proposed that the blade or vane root be shaped in such a manner that the suction-side or pressure-side blade or vane root surface of the associated platform longitudinal edge be curved convexly or concavely, respectively. Moreover, the invention relates to the use of a gas turbine blade or vane ring of this type.

Abstract: In a process for producing a turbine blade or vane, a casting (10′) which is in the basic shape of the turbine blade or vane is produced in a casting mold, and the casting (10′) is then subjected to material-removing machining in order to complete the turbine blade or vane.