US 11,939,879 B2
Blade repair method, blade, and gas turbine
Osamu Ueda, Yokohama (JP); Hiroshi Murai, Yokohama (JP); and Ryoji Fushino, Yokohama (JP)
Assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/786,836
Filed by MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD., Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Dec. 17, 2020, PCT No. PCT/JP2020/047134
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jun. 17, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/132012, PCT Pub. Date Jul. 1, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-231773 (JP), filed on Dec. 23, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2023/0025087 A1, Jan. 26, 2023
Int. Cl. F01D 5/00 (2006.01); B23K 35/30 (2006.01); F01D 5/14 (2006.01); F01D 9/04 (2006.01)
CPC F01D 5/005 (2013.01) [B23K 35/30 (2013.01); F01D 5/14 (2013.01); F01D 9/041 (2013.01); F05D 2220/32 (2013.01); F05D 2230/80 (2013.01); F05D 2240/12 (2013.01); F05D 2240/30 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A blade repair method of repairing a crack formed in a blade toward a blade body from an end surface of a platform in a blade width direction including a direction perpendicular to a blade height direction, the blade including the blade body that is disposed in a combustion gas flow channel in which combustion gas flows and has an airfoil shape and the platform that is provided at an end of the blade body in the blade height direction, extends in the blade width direction, and partitions a part of an edge of the combustion gas flow channel, the blade repair method comprising:
a notched portion-forming step of forming a notched portion, which is recessed toward the blade body from the end surface of the platform and includes a first region positioned close to the blade body and a second region positioned closer to the end surface of the platform than the first region, by removing a crack-containing region, which includes the crack, in the platform not yet repaired;
a first welding step of filling the first region with a first welding material by overlay welding using the first welding material; and
a second welding step of filling the second region with a second welding material by overlay welding using the second welding material after the first welding step,
wherein high-temperature strength of the second welding material is higher than high-temperature strength of the first welding material,
weldability of the first welding material is higher than weldability of the second welding material,
the second region is a region in a range of 1.0 mm to 3.0 mm toward the blade body from the end surface of the platform,
a connecting portion between the blade body and the platform forms a fillet portion along which the combustion gas flows, and
a surface of the fillet portion is formed of a curved surface that allows a gas path surface of the platform partitioning the part of the edge of the combustion gas flow channel to gradually become a blade surface of the blade body,
an end, which is disposed close to the blade body, of both ends of the fillet portion in the blade width direction is a trailing end of the fillet portion, and
in a case where a width of a heat-affected zone, which is affected by heat during the overlay welding of the first welding material, is defined as a heat-affected width, the first and second welding steps are performed when a distance between a tip of the crack closest to the blade body and the trailing end of the fillet portion is larger than the heat-affected width.
 
5. A blade comprising:
a blade body that is disposed in a combustion gas flow channel in which combustion gas flows and has an airfoil shape; and
a platform that is provided at an end of the blade body in a blade height direction, extends in a blade width direction including a direction perpendicular to the blade height direction, and partitions a part of an edge of the combustion gas flow channel,
wherein the platform includes:
a notched portion, which is recessed toward the blade body from an end surface of the platform and includes a first region positioned close to the blade body and a second region positioned closer to the end surface of the platform than the first region, formed by removing a crack-containing region in which a crack, occurs;
a first welded portion that is disposed to fill the first region and is made of a first welding material; and
a second welded portion that is disposed to fill the second region and is made of a second welding material,
wherein high-temperature strength of the second welding material is higher than high-temperature strength of the first welding material,
weldability of the first welding material is higher than weldability of the second welding material,
in a case where an end surface of the second welded portion disposed close to the end surface of the platform is used as a reference, a thickness of the second welded portion in a direction toward the blade body from the end surface of the second welded portion is in a range of 1.0 mm to 3.0 mm,
the first region includes a penetrating portion that penetrates the platform in a thickness direction of the platform and a non-penetrating portion that does not penetrate the platform, and
the penetrating portion is formed to remove a position at which the crack is formed.