Key components within gas turbines, such as the blades, can be susceptible to a range of degradation mechanisms, including hot corrosion. Hot corrosion type mechanisms describe a sequence of events that include the growth and fluxing of protective oxide scales followed by the degradation of the underlying coating/alloy; this can significantly reduce component lifetimes. To better understand the progress of this type of damage mechanism, a model of hot corrosion progression with both time and corrosive deposit flux is presented for IN738LC and compared to experimental test data collected at 700 °C for four different deposit fluxes. One approach to the interpolation of model parameters between these four fluxes is illustrated. Of particular importance is that the model accounts for the statistical variation in metal loss though the use of Weibull statistics.

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