Inventors:
Bernard Patrick Bewlay - Niskayuna NY, US
Pazhayannur Ramanathan Subramanian - Niskayuna NY, US
Joseph David Rigney - Milford OH, US
Richard DiDomizio - Scotia NY, US
Voramon Supatarawanich Dheeradhada - Latham NY, US
Assignee:
General Electric Company - Niskayuna NY
International Classification:
B32B 15/00
C22C 30/00
US Classification:
428662, 420428, 420588, 416241 R, 416241 B, 428469, 428472
Abstract:
Coatings suitable for use as protective oxide-forming coatings on Nb-based substrates exposed to high temperatures and oxidative environments. The coatings contain chromium and/or molybdenum, preferably contains silicon, and optionally contains niobium, titanium, hafnium, iron, rhenium, tantalum, and/or tungsten, which in combination form multiple intermetallic phases, which in combination form one or more intermetallic phases that promote the formation of a slow-growing oxide scale. Depending on the particular coating composition, the intermetallic phases may be: a silicon-modified CrNb Laves phase and optionally a chromium solid solution phase, a CrNbSi intermetallic phase, and/or an MSi intermetallic phase where M is niobium, titanium, and/or chromium; or MSi, MSiand/or MSiwhere M is molybdenum, niobium, titanium, chromium, hafnium, iron, rhenium, tantalum, and/or tungsten.