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A Design Study in Nickel-Based Superalloy Castings-- Combustor Floatwall Panel

Lessons Learned
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Hitchiner Manufacturing has been producing the floatwall panels for over 15 years and is currently producing about 100,000 panels per year for the aerospace industry.

The successful production of these panels in a wide variety of sizes and configurations illustrates --

  • The ability of the investment casting process to produce castings in virtually any configuration in which a wax pattern can be formed, with an unmatched capability for thin walls and fine surface features.

  • The unique capability of the countergravity low-pressure vacuum (CLV) casting process for producing thin wall castings in highly reactive alloys.

  • The ability to produce large numbers of castings from single molds with highly efficient material utilization.


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