superalloy the u03b3 stabilizing material used the welding process to be used or a combination thereof the surfaces are then welded using a welding process while it may be possible to use a variety of different welding processes after the addition of the u03b3 stabilizing material in one embodiment it would be beneficial to use a low heat input welding process to help reduce the chance that the u03b3 phase will be converted to u03b3 u2032 during the welding process one example of a low heat input welding process is a micro plasma welding process micro tig or low heat input lasers again as with the previous embodiment once the welding step has been completed the areas of the superalloy that were welded may be returned to the original u03b3 u03b3 u2032 balance of the superalloy using a post weld heat treatment step again this heat treatment step may be selected such that the original u03b3 u03b3 u2032 balance or close to the u03b3 u03b3 u2032 balance is achieved using the heat treatment step it is again to be understood that this additional heat treatment step is not required if the original u03b3 u03b3 u2032 balance for the welded areas of the superalloy is not desired alternatively the heat treatment step may be used to create a new u03b3 u03b3 u2032 balance such that the areas that were welded have different properties than the original superalloy the methods of the present invention may also be used in a method for repairing an article such as a turbine component that contains one or more.