Turbine Blade

TMS 196

Introduction-Turbine Blades

A turbine blade is the individual component which makes up the turbine section of a gas turbine. The blades are responsible for extracting energy from the high temperature, high pressure gas produced by the combustor.

The turbine blades are often the limiting component of gas turbines. To survive in this difficult environment, turbine blades often use exotic materials like Ni based-superalloys and many different methods of cooling, such as internal air channels, boundary layer cooling, and thermal barrier coatings.

The Generations

TMS-196

A 5th generation single crystal (SC) super-alloy TMS-196 with improved microstructural stability and environmental properties. TMS-196 has a very stable microstructure even after 1000h creep at 1100oC and also very well balanced creep, Thermo Mechanical Fatigue and environmental properties. TMS-196 also has excellent Single Crystal castability (upto 300 mm achieved). Cost: $ 25,000 per Blade (yep Rs.15,38,000)!!!!!

TMS-196 Material Properties

Creep

Behaviours

TMS-196 exhibits superior creep strength over other commercial superalloys - ReneN5, CMSX-4 and CMSX-10. TMS-196 is designed for maximum strength with acceptable phase stability and oxidation resistance. Larson-Miller plot shows significant creep advantage of TMS-196 over other commercial or experimental alloys.

Larson-Miller Plot

TMS-196 Material Properties

Thermo-Mechanical

Fatigue (TMF) Property

TMF test cycles was designed to simulate thermal and stress changes experienced in the actual turbine blade during service, the results were:

Why TMS-196?

This alloy possesses a balance of excellent properties, which are desired by gas turbine and aero engine manufacturers in order to further enhance their efficiencies TMS-196 with a density of 9.01g/cm3 possesses significant advantage in elevated temperature properties over the previous commercial superalloys, such as CMSX-4, CMSX-10, PWA1484 and ReneN5 TMS-196 exhibits more than two times the thermomechanical fatigue life cycles of ReneN5

Why TMS-196?

TMS-196 possesses superior phase stability than previous commercial alloy, CMSX-10 Moderate amount of Cr in TMS-196 allows the alloy to retain acceptable oxidation resistance, which is similar to that of ReneN The castability of TMS-196 appears to be similar to that of the 2nd generation alloys

The Future Materials

TMS-238

AN OXIDATION-RESISTANT HIGH-STRENGTH SIXTHGENERATION SINGLE-CRYSTAL SUPERALLOY

L-M Plot

Corrosion Test

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Summary

The turbine blades are often the limiting component of gas turbines. TMS-196 alloy possesses a balance of excellent properties required for Turbine Blades TMS-196 with a density of 9.01g/cm3 possesses significant advantage in elevated temperature properties TMS-196 exhibits more than two times the thermomechanical fatigue life cycles of previous generation materials

Summary

TMS-196 possesses superior phase stability than previous commercial alloys Moderate amount of Cr in TMS-196 allows the alloy to retain acceptable oxidation resistance, which is similar to that of previous commercial alloys

The castability of TMS-196 appears to be similar to that of the previous commercial alloys
TMS-238 is the next generation alloy which is better than TMS-196 in terms of hot corrosion resistance