METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING AN ABRADABLE LAYER

• Main Authors: FREGEAC, Arnaud, Louis, Gabriel, SELEZNEFF, Serge, Georges, Vladimir, LE BIEZ, Philippe, Charles, Alain, ANSART, Florence, ESTOURNES, Claude, Gilbert, Jean-Pierre
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 28.04.2021
• Subjects: BLASTING; CASTING; CHEMICAL SURFACE TREATMENT; CHEMISTRY; COATING BY VACUUM EVAPORATION, BY SPUTTERING, BY ION IMPLANTATIONOR BY CHEMICAL VAPOUR DEPOSITION, IN GENERAL; COATING BY VACUUM EVAPORATION, BY SPUTTERING, BY IONIMPLANTATION OR BY CHEMICAL VAPOUR DEPOSITION, IN GENERAL; COATING MATERIAL WITH METALLIC MATERIAL; COATING METALLIC MATERIAL; DIFFUSION TREATMENT OF METALLIC MATERIAL; ENGINE PLANTS IN GENERAL; HEATING; INHIBITING CORROSION OF METALLIC MATERIAL OR INCRUSTATION INGENERAL; LIGHTING; MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; MAKING METALLIC POWDER; MANUFACTURE OF ARTICLES FROM METALLIC POWDER; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; METALLURGY; NON-POSITIVE DISPLACEMENT MACHINES OR ENGINES, e.g. STEAMTURBINES; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; POWDER METALLURGY; STEAM ENGINES; SURFACE TREATMENT OF METALLIC MATERIAL BY DIFFUSION INTO THESURFACE, BY CHEMICAL CONVERSION OR SUBSTITUTION; TRANSPORTING; WEAPONS; WORKING METALLIC POWDER

A process for manufacturing an abradable layer, includes compressing a powder composition including at least micrometric ceramic particles having a number-average form factor greater than or equal to 3, a mass content of said micrometric ceramic particles in the powder composition being greater than or equal to 85%, the form factor of a particle being defined as the ratio [largest dimension of the particle]/[largest cross-sectional dimension of the particle], and sintering the powder composition thus compressed to obtain the abradable layer, wherein a temperature imposed during sintering, the sintering time and the compression pressure applied are selected so as to obtain a volume porosity rate of the abradable layer greater than or equal to 20%.