Abstract: Described herein are approaches to stabilizing AlFeSi ternary intermetallic compounds while destabilizing competing phases. The inclusion of metals such as Mn, Ni, Co, Cu, or Zn to produce quaternary systems accomplishes this problem associated with AlFeSi ternary intermetallic compounds.

Abstract: A method to manufacture an automobile vehicle engine aluminum piston, comprises: printing an aluminum piston crown portion including an additive manufacturing (AM) piston crown work piece using initial aluminum powders defining an initial aluminum powder bed; removing the aluminum piston crown portion from the initial aluminum powder bed; fixedly joining a cast iron ring carrier to the AM piston crown work piece; placing the aluminum piston crown portion together with the cast iron ring carrier into a secondary and a tertiary aluminum powder bed; and printing a piston skirt integrally connected to the AM piston crown work piece and to the cast iron ring carrier.

Abstract: Jewelry with non-precious metallic core and process for producing, comprising an outer layer (10) and an inner core (50), a melting temperature of the inner core (50) is higher than that of the outer layer (10), consequent to a synchronous position of an outer markers (12a, 12b, 12c) and an inner markers (52a, 52b, 52c), the outer layer (10) engulfs the inner core (50) with a prescribed thickness dimension (44) all around; mechanically moving, flexing and load bearing part of an active jewelry are made of non-precious metal, the outer layer (10) is made of a precious metal like gold, silver, platinum and the like; while the inner core (50) is made of a non-precious metal like steel, titanium and the like, the jewelry article (100) is studded with diamonds and precious stones. The jewelry article (100) may be an array of closed links (110).

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for manufacturing a metal ingot by continuous casting, comprising the following steps: S1: melting the metal, S2: transferring the liquid metal (2) by pouring it into a crucible (12), S3: moving the base plate (14) of the crucible (12), S4: progressive solidification of the liquid metal (2) from the base plate (14) of the crucible (12), and S5: during the step S3 of moving the base plate (14), applying a compression force to the metal (3) which is present between the base plate (14) and the side wall (13), the compression force being applied along a second axis (X2) parallel to the first axis (X1) so as to deform the metal and to obtain an ingot (3) which has a smaller width (L2).

Abstract: Fuel cell alloy bipolar plates. The alloys may be used as a coating or bulk material. The alloys and metallic glasses may be particularly suitable for proton-exchange membrane fuel cells because of they may exhibit reduced weights and/or better corrosion resistance. The alloys may include any of the following AlxCuyTiz, AlxFeyNiz, AlxMnyNiz, AlxNiyTiz, CuxFeyTiz, CuxNiyTiz, AlxFeySiz, AlxMnySiz, AlxNiySiz, NixSiyTiz, and CxFeySiz. The alloys or metallic glass may be doped with various dopants to improve glass forming ability, mechanical strength, ductility, electrical or thermal conductivities, hydrophobicity, and/or corrosion resistance.

Abstract: A turbine blade repair method is provided. The turbine blade repair method includes quantizing a position and a shape of a damaged portion of a turbine blade into numerical values, calculating a momentum loss of the turbine blade due to removal of the damaged portion, modeling a shape of a repair portion to replace the damaged portion so that the repair portion has the same momentum as the damaged portion, removing the damaged portion, and forming the modeled repair portion by performing an additive manufacturing at a position of the removed damaged portion.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a golf club head that comprises a strike face. The strike face has a central region, defined by a forty millimeter by twenty millimeter rectangular area centered on a center of the strike face and elongated in a heel-to-toe direction. Within the central region, the strike face has a characteristic time (CT) of no more than 257 microseconds. Within the central region, no less than 25% of the strike face has a coefficient of restitution (COR) of at least 0.8. Within the central region, no less than 60% of the strike face has a CT of at least 235 microseconds. Within the central region, no less than 35% of the strike face has a CT of at least 240 microseconds.

Abstract: A wheel hub molding and casting die includes: a casting die shell, a supporting bottom plate, a limiting bottom plate, a lifting module, a module supporting plate, a lower die, an upper die and removable plates. The supporting bottom plate is mounted on the lower surface of the casting die shell. The limiting bottom plate is arranged below the supporting bottom plate. The module supporting plate is movably arranged in a molding cavity. The lifting module is connected between the bottom of the molding cavity and the module supporting plate. The lower die and the upper die are closed to form a pouring cavity. Annular slots are formed in the outer side wall of the upper die. Removable plate slots are formed in the upper surface of the casting die shell.

Abstract: Methods for manufacturing airfoils of gas turbine engines are provided. The methods include forming a main body core, the main body core including a feed cavity core portion, the main body core configured to form at least a part of an airfoil including an airfoil body, a platform, and an attachment element, forming a platform circuit core having a platform core extension, wherein the platform circuit core is configured to form a cooling circuit in the platform, wherein at least one of the feed cavity core portion and the platform core extension includes a notch, assembling the platform circuit core to the main body core such that the platform core extension engages with the feed cavity core portion at the notch, casting an airfoil using the assembled platform circuit core and main body core, and removing a platform core extension element that is formed at the location of the notch.

Abstract: Disclosed golf club heads include a body defining an interior cavity, a face, a sole, a crown, a skirt, and a hosel. Certain embodiments include a channel positioned in a forward portion of the sole. Some embodiments include one or more of a split mass pad and/or one or more weight ports positioned behind the channel. Additionally or alternatively, one or more mass pads or weight ports may be positioned adjacent to the periphery of the sole portion. Some embodiments further include an adjustable head-shaft connection assembly configured to adjustably couple the hosel to a golf club shaft.

Abstract: A golf club head includes a main body having a top portion, a bottom portion, a striking face, and an interior surface. A weight member is coupled to the interior surface of the main body. In an imaginary vertical plane that passes through the weight member, the interior surface of the main body comprises a first point and a second point. An imaginary line passes through the first point and the second point. A first imaginary boundary line and a second imaginary boundary line, both passing through the weight member and being perpendicular to the imaginary line, pass through the first point and the second point, respectively. Between the first point and the second point, the interior surface of the main body has an irregularity factor of at least 1.2 and the weight member comprises a distribution factor of at most 1.0 and a conformity factor of at most 0.07.

Abstract: A centrifugally cast composite roll comprising an outer layer formed by a centrifugal casting method, and an inner layer made of ductile cast iron and integrally fused to the outer layer, the outer layer being made of an Fe-based alloy comprising by mass 1.3-3.7% of C, 0.3-3% of Si, 0.1-3% of Mn, 1-7% of Cr, 1-8% of Mo, at least one of 2.5-7% of V, 0.1-3% of Nb and 0.1-5% of W (V is indispensable), and 0.01-0.2% of B and/or 0.05-0.3% of S, the balance being substantially Fe and inevitable impurities, the outer layer having a structure containing no graphite; the inner layer comprising a core portion fused to the outer layer, and a drive-side shaft portion and a free-side shaft portion integrally extending from both ends of the core portion; the total amount of Cr, Mo, V, Nb and W being 0.35-2% by mass in an end portion of the drive-side shaft portion and 0.15-1.8% by mass in an end portion of the free-side shaft portion, the former being larger than the latter by 0.2% or more by mass.

Abstract: Apparatus and methods for creating cast metal objects in space and other environments. Molds are created using additive manufacturing and are injected with a castable metal having a melting point lower than a mold melting point. In some aspects, the additive manufacturing device and the metal casting unit are contained in the same unit.

Abstract: Provided are a cancer cell-trapping metal filter which has a high opening ratio, a cancer cell-trapping metal filter sheet, a cancer cell-trapping device using the cancer cell-trapping filter, and manufacturing methods therefor. According to a cancer cell-trapping metal filter 1, openings of connected through-holes 12 that are formed in a metal sheet 11 have a wave shape, and thus it is possible to extract a CTC from other components by utilizing a hole diameter on a short-side side of the openings, and it is possible to make the connected through-holes be closer to each other due to the wave shape while maintaining a CTC trapping ability. Accordingly, it is possible to further improve the opening ratio in the cancer cell-trapping metal filter 1.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method for additively fabricating a solid object from a series of components. The method utilizes additive fabrication with a programmed computer operating a machine to produce a solid object based on a three dimensional, computerized rendering of the solid object. Each component is produced from one or more molds which are filled with a fluid material that solidifies into a component that attaches to a previously manufactured component by way of the same process.

Abstract: A method of forming an earth-boring tool includes introducing metal into a die, rotating the die to generate centrifugal forces on the metal, and cooling the metal in the rotating die. A rotary drill bit may include a unitary, centrifugally cast bit body including an integral shank, at least one blade, and at least one cutting element on the blade. A rotary drill bit or a roller cone may include a first centrifugally cast material and a second centrifugally cast material. Another rotary drill bit includes a bit body comprising a maraging steel alloy. A method of forming a rotary drill bit may include disposing cutting elements on a rotary drill bit comprising maraging steel and aging the rotary drill bit to form at least one intermetallic precipitate phase. Methods of repairing a rotary drill bit include annealing and aging at least a portion of a rotary drill bit.

Abstract: A process for producing a rotationally symmetrical cast aluminum component by die casting, which is reworked partially on its inner and/or outer lateral surfaces. At least a part of the lateral surfaces is not treated and is used as a non-positively locking bearing surface for installation in an assembly and also for bracing the component.

Abstract: Use of an aluminium composite material consisting of at least one aluminium core alloy and at least one outer brazing layer consisting of an aluminium brazing alloy provided on one or both sides of the aluminium core alloy. Based on this prior art the object of the present invention is to provide a thermal joining process for an aluminium composite material, so that the use of fluxes can be dispensed with, this object being achieved in that the aluminium brazing layer of the aluminium composite material has a pickled surface and the aluminium composite material is used in a fluxless thermal joining process and the joining process is carried out in the presence of a protective gas.

Abstract: Decorative shape cast products and methods, systems, compositions and apparatus for producing the same are described. In one embodiment, the decorative shape cast products are produced from an Al—Ni or Al—Ni—Mn alloy, with a tailored microstructure to facilitate production of anodized decorative shape cast product having the appropriate finish and mechanical properties.

Abstract: A low leakage, integral fixed vane system for a gas turbine engine compression system which can accommodate the latest 3-D aerodynamic airfoil geometries and provide endwall ovalization control. A unitized construction wherein the vanes are integral with the case wall in the compression system.

Abstract: A method of building or repair of a hollow superalloy component (20, 61) by forming an opening (38, 62) in a wall (28) of the component; filling a cavity (22B, 64) behind the opening with a fugitive support material (34, 52, 54, 68) to support a filler powder (36) across the opening; traversing an energy beam (42) across the filler powder to form a deposit (44) that spans and closes the opening; in which the deposit is fused to the edges (32, 62) of the opening. The filler powder includes at least metal, and may further include flux. The support material may include filler powder, a solid (54), a foam (52) insert, a flux powder (34) and/or other ceramic powder (68). Supporting powder may have a mesh size smaller than that of the filler powder.

Abstract: A product comprising a rear rail having multiple pre-determined datum features or holes which may be used in determining the length of the wheelbase of a vehicle and a method for making the same.

Abstract: A method for producing Fe—Al alloy includes: ingot-producing by casting Fe—Al alloy and taking out the Fe—Al alloy from a mold to obtain an ingot, the Fe—Al alloy containing Al: 2.0 to 9.0 mass % and a balance of Fe and impurities; hot-forging the ingot to form a hot-forged material; hot-rolling the hot-forged material to form a hot-rolled material; oxide-film removing by removing an oxide film of the hot-rolled material to form a material for cold rolling; cold-rolling the material for cold rolling to form a cold-rolled material; and annealing the cold-rolled material. Heating of the ingot in the hot-forging starts before a surface temperature of the ingot taken out from the mold is cooled to less than 250° C. in the ingot-producing.

Abstract: Disclosed is an aluminum alloy material for a heat exchanger fin, the aluminum alloy material containing Si: 1.0% to 5.0% by mass, Fe: 0.1% to 2.0% by mass, and Mn: 0.1% to 2.0% by mass with balance being Al and inevitable impurities, wherein 250 pieces/mm2 or more to 7×104 pieces/mm2 or less of Si-based intermetallic compound particles having equivalent circle diameters of 0.5 to 5 ?m are present in a cross-section of the aluminum alloy material; and wherein 10 pieces/mm2 or more and 1000 pieces/mm2 or less of the Al—Fe—Mn—Si-based intermetallic compounds having equivalent circle diameters of more than 5 ?m are present in a cross-section of the aluminum alloy material. The aluminum alloy material may further contain one or more additive elements of Mg, Cu, Zn, In, Sn, Ti, V, Zr, Cr, Ni, Be, Sr, Bi, Na, and Ca.

Abstract: A magnesium alloy having high ductility and high toughness, and a preparation method thereof are provided, in which the magnesium alloy includes 1.0-3.5 wt % of tin, 0.05-3.0 wt % of zinc, and the balance of magnesium and inevitable impurities, and a preparation method thereof. Magnesium alloy with a relatively small tin content is added with zinc, and optionally, with one or more alloy elements selected from aluminum, manganese and rare earth metal, at a predetermined content ratio. As a result, the alloy exhibits superior ductility and moderate strength due to the suppression of excessive formation of precipitates and some precipitates hardening effect, respectively. Accordingly, compared to extruded material prepared from conventional commercial magnesium alloys, higher ductility and toughness are provided, so that the alloy can be widely applied over the entire industries including automotive and aerospace industries.

Abstract: High purity tin and tin alloy are provided in which the respective contents of U and Th are 5 ppb or less, the respective contents of Pb and Bi are 1 ppm or less, and the purity is 5N or higher, provided that this excludes the gas components of O, C, N, H, S and P. A cast ingot of the tin or alloy has an ? ray count of 0.001 cph/cm2 or less. Since recent semiconductor devices are densified and of large capacity, there is risk of a soft error occurring due to ? ray from materials in the vicinity of the semiconductor chip. Thus, there are demands for purifying soldering material used in the vicinity of semiconductor devices, and materials with fewer ? rays. The disclosed tin, alloy, and method reduce ? dose of tin so as to be adaptable as the foregoing material.

Abstract: A bi-cast turbine rotor disk and method of forming the same are provided. The disk includes a ring and a blade. The ring comprises a superalloy that includes a plurality of elements, and the blade extends from the ring. The blade comprises a non-metallic ceramic matrix composite, and at least one element from the superalloy of the ring is diffused into the non-metallic ceramic matrix composite of the blade.

Abstract: Hardened amalgams formed from copper mixed with liquid gallium or liquid gallium-indium alloys are used to fabricate sputter targets comprised of copper, gallium and indium (CIG) and targets of selenides of copper, gallium and indium (CIGS). Amalgam hardening occurs by formation of intermetallic compounds at or near ambient temperature as a result of reaction between liquid metals and solid metals in powder form.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure describe techniques and configurations for molded heat spreaders. In some embodiments, a heat spreader includes a first insert having a first face and a first side, the first face positioned to form a bottom surface of a first cavity, and a second insert having a second face and a second side, the second face positioned to form a bottom surface of a second cavity. The second cavity may have a depth that is different from a depth of the first cavity. The heat spreader may further include a molding material disposed between the first and second inserts and coupled with the first side and the second side, the molding material forming at least a portion of a side wall of the first cavity and at least a portion of a side wall of the second cavity. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.

Abstract: A monobloc piston body for an internal combustion engine is provided. The piston body includes a first piece which includes a pair of skirt portions and a pair of pin bosses and a second piece which includes a crown portion with an upper combustion surface and an at least partially enclosed oil gallery. The first and second pieces are joined together at a joint that is located on a side of the oil gallery opposite of the upper combustion surface. The firs piece is made through casting or forging, and the second piece is made through an additive manufacturing process, such as direct metal laser sintering.

Abstract: This hot-rolled ferritic stainless steel sheet contains, in terms of % by mass: 0.0150% or less of C, 0.01% to 2.00% of Si, 0.01% to 2.00% of Mn, less than 0.040% of P, 0.010% or less of S, 10.0% to 30.0% of Cr, 0.001% to 0.100% of Al, and 0.0200% or less of N, with a balance being Fe and unavoidable impurities, wherein in a cross section in a range of ¼ to ¾ of a sheet thickness, a length L of all crystal grain boundaries having orientation differences of 1° or more to less than 180° and a length La of subgrain boundaries having orientation differences of 1° or more to less than 15° satisfy a relation of La/L?0.20.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure describe techniques and configurations for molded heat spreaders. In some embodiments, a heat spreader includes a first insert having a first face and a first side, the first face positioned to form a bottom surface of a first cavity, and a second insert having a second face and a second side, the second face positioned to form a bottom surface of a second cavity. The second cavity may have a depth that is different from a depth of the first cavity. The heat spreader may further include a molding material disposed between the first and second inserts and coupled with the first side and the second side, the molding material forming at least a portion of a side wall of the first cavity and at least a portion of a side wall of the second cavity. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for manufacturing a metal-ceramic composite structure intended to be exposed to high temperatures. The composite structure includes a base metal structure or component, which is on at least one side covered and permanently joined with one or more ceramic tiles.

Abstract: A bioerodible endoprosthesis includes a bioerodible magnesium alloy. The bioerodible magnesium alloy has a microstructure including equiaxed Mg-rich solid solution-phase grains having an average grain diameter of less than or equal to 5 microns and second-phase precipitates in grain boundaries between the equiaxed Mg-rich solid solution-phase grains. The beta-phase precipitates have an average longest dimension of 0.5 micron or less. The microstructure can be produced by one or more equal-channel high-strain processes.

Abstract: The present invention provides high strength steel pipe for line pipe superior in low temperature toughness suppressed in drop of toughness of the HAZ and a method of production of the same, more particularly high strength steel plate for line pipe used as a material for high strength steel pipe for line pipe and a method of production of the same, in particular high strength steel pipe for line pipe superior in low temperature toughness characterized in that the chemical compositions of the base metal is, by mass %, C: 0.020 to 0.080%, Si: 0.01 to 0.50%, Mo: 0.01 to 0.15%, Al: 0.0005 to 0.030%, and Nb: 0.0001 to 0.030% contained in a range of C+0.25Si+0.1Mo+Al+Nb: 0.100% or less and the mixture of austenite and martensite present along prior austenite grain boundaries of the reheated part of the heat affected zone has a width of 10 ?m or less and a length of 50 ?m or less.

Abstract: A firearm silencer includes a first cylindrical body section formed as a single unit having a first inner bore and a receiving end having a first axial bore, and a second cylindrical body section formed as a single unit having a second inner bore and a discharge end having a second axial bore. The first cylindrical body section is joined to the second cylindrical body section to form a cylindrical body. A plurality of baffles disposed within the cylindrical body, each baffle having a baffle axial bore.

Abstract: A copper alloy wire rod according to the present invention includes a copper parent phase and short fiber-shaped composite phases which are dispersed in the copper parent phase and which contain Cu8Zr3 and Cu, wherein the content of Zr is within the range of 0.2 atomic percent or more and 1.0 atomic percent or less. This copper alloy wire rod can be obtained by including the steps of melting a raw material in such a way that a copper alloy having a Zr content within the above-described range of is produced so as to obtain a molten metal in a melting step, casting the molten metal so as to obtain an ingot in a casting step, and subjecting the ingot to cold wire drawing in a wire drawing step, wherein the wire drawing step and a treatment after the wire drawing step are performed at lower than 500° C.

Abstract: A foundry method of casting monocrystalline metal parts, the method including at least casting a molten alloy into a cavity of a mold through at least one casting channel in the mold, subjecting the alloy to heat treatment, and removing the mold, and wherein the heat treatment is performed before an end of mold removal.

Abstract: System and method of producing multi-layered aluminum alloy products are disclosed. A multi-layered aluminum alloy product may be formed by first heating a first aluminum alloy to a first temperature where the first temperature is at least about 5° C. lower than the eutectic temperature of the first aluminum alloy, second heating a second aluminum alloy to a second temperature where the second temperature is at least about 5° C. higher than the liquidus temperature of the second aluminum alloy, and coupling the second aluminum alloy to the first aluminum alloy to produce a multi-layered aluminum alloy product.

Abstract: A method for desulfurizing a metal alloy comprises heating the metal alloy to a molten state. A gaseous desulfurizing compound is bubbled through the molten alloy to form a solid sulfur-containing waste phase and a molten reduced-sulfur alloy phase. The solid waste phase and the molten reduced-sulfur alloy phase are separated. The gaseous desulfurizing compound includes a constituent element selected from the group: alkali metals, alkaline earth metals, and rare earth metals.

Abstract: A coated article having an improved coating oxidation life includes a superalloy substrate material having a composition which includes sulfur, herein the sulfur is present in an amount less than 1 ppm; and an overlay coating formed over a surface of the substrate material.

Abstract: The present invention relates to new graphene-based steel tubes, pipes or risers, whose products are obtained by a method of manufacturing that consists in adding graphene nanosheets, heat treatment, forming tubular geometry and surface finish. In addition to the unique chemical composition based on graphene, with carbon content ranging between 0.01 and 21.0%, these products have the wall thickness between 800 nm and 80 mm (from ultra fine to thick), diameter between 10 and 5000 mm, and having a tensile strength not less than 2000 MPa reaching up to 50 GPa, with far superior features to those obtained by other methods. Such products can be used for petroleum, natural gas and biofuels transportation, including in deepwater submarine riser systems (>1500 m), with direct application in the oil industry.

Abstract: A vanadium-based hydrogen permeation alloy for a membrane, a method of manufacturing the same, and a method of using a membrane including the same are provided. The vanadium-based hydrogen permeation alloy for a membrane includes nickel (Ni) at more than 0 atm % and 5 atm % or less, iron (Fe) at 5 atm % to 15 atm %, yttrium (Y) at more than 0 atm % and 1 atm % or less, and a remainder of vanadium and impurities.

Abstract: Disclosed is an aluminum wheel comprising: Al as a major ingredient, Si: about 0˜2 wt % (excluding 0), Fe: about 0˜0.15 wt% (excluding 0), Cu : about 0.5˜1 wt %, Mn: about 0.03˜0.2 wt %, Mg: about 0.8˜1.2 wt %, Cr: about 0.05˜0.35 wt %, Zn: about 0.2˜0.6 wt %, Ti: about 0.01˜0.1 wt %, Sr: about 0.001˜0.05 wt %, P: about 0˜0.001 wt % (excluding 0) and inevitable impurities; and a method for producing the same.

Abstract: An intermediate case (IMC) for use in a compressor section of a gas turbine engine includes a bleed duct and an IMC centerbody. The bleed duct is formed via sand casting. The IMC centerbody is formed via investment casting and is fixedly attached to the bleed duct.

Abstract: A method is used to make an aluminum alloy with excellent tensile strength, low density and excellent radiation. The method includes the steps of providing a base material, adding 0.06 wt % to 0.30 wt % of zirconium and 0.06 wt % to 0.30 wt % of vanadium to the base material, and melting the basic material with the zirconium and vanadium to provide an aluminum alloy. The base material includes 92.55 wt % to 97.38 wt % of aluminum, 0.9 wt % to 1.8 wt % of silicon, less than 0.5 wt % of iron, 0.6 wt % to 1.2 wt % of copper, 0.4 wt % to 1.1 wt % of manganese, 0.6 wt % to 1.4 wt % of magnesium, less than 0.40 wt % of chromium, less than 0.25 wt % of zinc and less than 0.20 wt % of titanium.

Abstract: The process includes: definition of the final hollow part in its internal portion after forging with deformation of solid or thinned-down sections; modelling of the solid or thinned-down sections; formation of the thinned-down sections by recyclable single-material cores positioned at places requiring zones with a thinned-down section, and modelling of the cores; after modelling, definition of the semi-finished product and of the cores in their initial forms having a different configuration from the forged cores; after casting of metal around the cores, in the prior initial form, striking of the semi-finished product with its cores resulting in the part and its cores being deformed from their initial shapes to their final shapes; fettling of the burrs; and removal of the cores.

Abstract: A component for use in a hot gas path of a turbomachine, and a method of constructing the same are disclosed. In an embodiment, the component includes an exterior wall substrate, wherein the exterior wall substrate includes an interior face and an exterior face, and a plurality of plateaus disposed on the exterior face. A plurality of cooling holes are formed, providing a fluid passageway between the interior face and the exterior face of the exterior wall substrate. Each cooling hole is disposed such that it passes through a plateau. A first coating layer is deposited over the exterior face of the exterior wall substrate.

Abstract: A fish mouth seal carrier for a guide vane arrangement of a gas turbine comprises a first half-shell element and a second half-shell element bonded to it, which together form a box profile with two axial arms and two radial arms. A sealing element is arranged on one of the axial arms of the box profile. At least one of the two half-shell elements has an integrally formed axial flange for forming, with a guide vane platform, a fish mouth seal accommodating an axial flange of an adjoining moving blade radially between the guide vane platform and the axial flange of the seal carrier.

Abstract: High modulus turbine shafts and high modulus cylindrical articles are described as are the process parameters for producing these shafts and cylindrical articles. The shafts/articles have a high Young's modulus as a result of having high modulus <111> crystal texture along the longitudinal axis of the shaft/article. The shafts are produced from directionally solidified seeded <111> single crystal cylinders that are axisymmetrically hot worked before a limited recrystallization process is carried out at a temperature below the recrystallization temperature of the alloy. The disclosed process produces an intense singular <111> texture and results in shaft or cylindrical article with a Young's modulus that is at least 40% greater than that of conventional nickel or iron alloys or conventional steels.