摘要:
The present disclosure provides a method of manufacturing a turbomachinery component for a gas turbine engine, comprising: receiving an ideal design of the turbomachinery component, the turbomachinery component comprising: an aerofoil portion comprising an aerofoil surface and having an ideal aerofoil wall thickness; and a platform portion comprising a platform surface coterminous with the aerofoil surface, the platform portion having an ideal radial platform thickness along a radial direction; determining an intermediate design of the turbomachinery component comprising an intermediate platform portion having an intermediate platform surface and an intermediate radial platform thickness which is greater than the ideal radial platform thickness; forming, by an investment casting process, an intermediate turbomachinery component based on the intermediate design, wherein the intermediate turbomachinery component comprises at least one detectable reference feature formed by an internal core element during the investment casting process; defining a datum system for machining the intermediate turbomachinery component comprising detecting the at least one reference feature and defining a radial datum based on the at least one reference feature; and machining the intermediate turbomachinery component using the datum system to remove material from at least the intermediate platform portion of the intermediate turbomachinery component to create a machined turbomachinery component.
摘要:
A process for investment casting of an engine part (100), e.g. a high-performance turbine blade for an aircraft engine, having at least one internal cast wall (120), the wall (120) being defined during the casting thereof by a pair of core members (110a, 110b) having respective ones of a pair of opposed faces, major portions of the said opposed faces being spaced from each other by a first distance (W) corresponding to a predetermined minimum thickness (W) of a major portion of the resulting cast wall (120), a face of a first core member (110a) of the pair which faces a second core member (110b) of the pair being provided with one or more protrusions (130) thereon, and a face of the second core member (110b) of the pair which faces the first core member (110a) of the pair being provided with one or more respective open recesses (150) therein, the or each respective protrusion (130) on the first core member (110a) facing the or a respective one of the said open recesses (150) in the second core member(110b), wherein during at least part of the casting procedure the first (110a) and second (110b) core members are maintained in a spatial position relative to each other such that: the said major portions of the opposed faces of the first and second core members (110a, 110b) assume a mutual spacing which substantially equals the said first distance (W) corresponding to the predetermined minimum thickness (W) of the major portion of the resulting cast wall (120); and at least a head portion of the or each protrusion (130) on the first core member (110a) is located within the or a respective open recess (150) in the second core member (110b), such that the or each respective protrusion (130) and the or each respective open recess (150) define therebetween a respective minor portion of the resulting cast wall (120) which is laterally displaced from the major portion of the resulting cast wall (120).
摘要:
A method for casting a turbine component body comprises; providing a mould defining the external geometry of the component body and providing a core defining an internal geometry of the component body. The core comprises a main body defining an internal chamber of the component body and an array of pedestals (43) extending between opposing walls of the internal chamber. A molten material is cast between the mould and the core and the core is then removed after the molten material has solidified. The core is provided using a core die which has an inlet (40) for receiving fluid core material. The core die is configured such as to provide a gradient of injection pressure which decreases from a first injection pressure at a first position (46) proximal to the inlet and a second injection pressure at a second position (47) distal to the inlet. The pedestal array is arranged such that the separation of the pedestals (43) increases between the first position (46) and the second position (47).
摘要:
A method for casting a turbine blade body comprises; providing a mould defining the external geometry of the blade body; providing a core defining an internal geometry of the blade body, the core comprising a main body defining an internal chamber of the blade body and having a root end and a tip end and a plurality of pedestals defining an array of cooling channels extending from the internal chamber; casting a molten material between the mould and the core; and removing the core after the molten material has solidified, wherein the pedestals are arranged in a single row (22) starting from the root end to a mid-portion of the main body (9) branching into multiple and divergent rows (23a,23b) towards the tip end of the body.