Abstract: A blank material for manufacturing fiber-reinforced coatings or metal components comprising fibers made of a high-strength material and metals or metal alloys, and a process for manufacturing the blank, and for manufacturing coatings and components made therefrom. The fibers are aligned in the blank in parallel to its axis, and metal wire meshes are knitted around them, with the fibers embedded at a distance from one another. By means of high-temperature isostatic pressing, metal components can be made, through which the reinforcing fibers extend at a uniform distance.

Abstract: In the case of a turbo-engine with transonically traversed stages, particularly a gas turbine with a stationary forward-guiding grid, a pressure compensating arrangement for the compensation of a pressure gradients caused by the compression waves is arranged over the circumference behind the forward-guiding grid at the hub and/or at the housing. The pressure compensating arrangement comprises especially a steadying chamber in proximity of the hub of the forward-guiding grid that interacts with a radially aligned sealing flange of the rotor disk.