Abstract:
A method for manufacturing a brush seal is provided including the steps of: (a) providing fiber; (b) providing a packing material; (c) providing a pair of backing plates; (d) arranging the fiber in a particular arrangement; (e) applying the packing material to selective areas of the arranged fiber; (f) cutting the fibers in bristle sections, wherein each of the bristle sections includes a plurality of bristles and one of the selective areas having applied packing material; (g) stacking the bristle sections, such that the selective areas of applied packing material are aligned between the backing plates; and (h) bonding the backing plates, the bristle sections, and the packing material together.
Abstract:
An additive manufacturing system includes an energy gun having a plurality of energy source devices each emitting an energy beam. A primary beam melts a selected region of a substrate into a melt pool and at least one secondary beam heat-conditions the substrate proximate the melt pool to reduce workpiece internal stress and/or enhance micro-structure composition of the workpiece.
Abstract:
A method of producing a ceramic material includes heating solid silicon monoxide to provide gaseous silicon monoxide, and exposing a structure having a free-carbon-containing material to the gaseous silicon monoxide to convert free carbon of the free-carbon-containing material to silicon carbide. Also disclosed is an intermediate article that includes a solid structure having free carbon and a solid, in-situ source of silicon monoxide gas. Also disclosed is a composition that includes a polymeric carrier phase and particulate of solid silicon monoxide dispersed in the polymeric carrier phase.
Abstract:
A solid-state method for forming an alloy includes providing a powder that has heterogeneous particles with a ratio, by weight, of an amount of nickel to an amount of a metal. The ratio is selected in accordance with a compositional ratio that can substantially bear a nickel intermetallic precipitate of the nickel and the metal. The heterogeneous particles are then consolidated and thermally treated to interdiffuse the nickel and the metal. The interdiffused nickel and metal are then precipitation treated to precipitate the nickel intermetallic.
Abstract:
A coating composition includes a conductive polymer including at least one of the following: a single conductive polymer, a dual strand conductive polymer, a combination of a single conductive polymer and a dual strand conductive polymer or an organic-inorganic hybrid composite.
Abstract:
REFRACTORY METAL CORE WALL THICKNESS CONTROL In accordance with the present invention, a casting system is provided which broadly comprises a core and a wax die spaced from said core, a refractory metal core having a first end seated within a slot in the core and a second end contacting the wax die for positioning the core relative to the wax die, and the refractory metal core having at least one of a mechanism for providing spring loading when closed in the wax die and a mechanism for mechanically locking the wax die to the core.
Abstract:
A method for forming or remanufacturing a component (22) to have an internal space. A refractory metal blocking element (100; 152, 154) is positioned with at least a portion (104; 156) to be within the internal space. A material is added by at least one of laser cladding and diffusion brazing, the blocking element (100; 152, 154) at least partially blocking entry of the material to the internal space. The blocking element (100; 152, 154) is removed.
Abstract:
In accordance with the present invention, a casting system is provided which broadly comprises a core and a wax die spaced from said core, a refractory metal cor e having a first end seated within a slot in the core and a second end contacting the wax die for positioning the core relative to the wax die, and the refractory metal core having at least one o f a mechanism for providing spring loading when closed in the wax die and a mechanism for mechanically locking the wax die to the core.