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| 20100303665 | NICKEL-BASE SUPERALLOYS AND COMPONENTS FORMED THEREOF A gamma prime nickel-base superalloy and components formed therefrom that exhibit improved high-temperature dwell capabilities, including creep and hold time fatigue crack growth behavior. A particular example of a component is a powder metallurgy turbine disk of a gas ... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100303666 | NICKEL-BASE SUPERALLOYS AND COMPONENTS FORMED THEREOF A gamma prime nickel-base superalloy and components formed therefrom that exhibit improved high-temperature dwell capabilities, including creep and hold time fatigue crack growth behavior. A particular example of a component is a powder metallurgy turbine disk of a gas ... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20070240793 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING FINAL GRAIN SIZE IN SUPERSOLVUS HEAT TREATED NICKEL-BASE SUPERALLOYS AND ARTICLES FORMED THEREBY A method of forming a component from a gamma-prime precipitation-strengthened nickel-base superalloy so that, following a supersolvus heat treatment the component characterized by a uniformly-sized grain microstructure. The method includes forming a billet having a suff... | 10/18/2007 |
| 20060275167 | Article prepared by depositing an alloying element on powder particles, and making the article from the particles An article is prepared by furnishing a plurality of powder particle substrates made of a substrate metal, providing a nonmetallic precursor of a metallic coating material, wherein the metallic coating material comprises an alloying element that is thermophysically melt ... | 12/07/2006 |