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Hardware 35<br />

Figure 3-9. Courtesy of Rolls-Royce Industrial & Marine Gas Turbines<br />

Limited. This chart represents a pictorial history of the development<br />

of turbine materials from early wrought alloys to the latest<br />

single crystal cast alloy blades. Improvements in material strength<br />

and durability is the single most contributing factor to the advances<br />

made in gas turbines.<br />

tion in the amount of boundary-strengthened elements (at least in<br />

some alloys) has raised the incipient melting point by 120°F (50°C).<br />

The evolution of equiaxed structure to directionally solidified<br />

structure to single crystal casting is shown for the same turbine blade<br />

in all three forms in Figure 3-11. Each advancement in this technology<br />

has increased the high temperature strength by approximately<br />

85°F (30°C). 2<br />

COMBUSTORS<br />

Combustor design is a complex task, often referred to as a “black<br />

art.” The combustor design took two distinct configurations fairly<br />

early in the evolution of the gas turbine. These are the can-annular

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