General Electric Company
Cold spray repair of engine components

Abstract:

A method is provided for adding material to a turbine engine component. The method includes cold spraying a powder towards a region of the component to form a deposit on the region of the component, the component being formed of a parent material, the parent material being a superalloy or a titanium alloy and defining a parent material property value, and the deposit defining a deposit material property value equal to at least fifty percent of the parent material property.