Abstract:
Mandrels for rolling a ring include recesses for receiving the ring, which have rounded parts at the connection between the various faces, so as to avoid the formation of sharp angles on the rolled ring and the accidental formation of cracks.
Abstract:
A counter plate for a turbo machine, including: a first external surface and a second external surface, which are substantially parallel; the first external surface of the counter plate creates a continuous ring or continuous ring segment and includes a first series of holes through which fasteners can pass; the second external surface of the counter plate including a plurality of surfaces for supporting heads of the fasteners, the support surfaces including a second series of holes, positioned facing the first series of holes, so that the fasteners can pass through the holes in the counter plate.
Abstract:
A spacecraft including at least one main propellant tank, a main engine fed with propellant by the main tank, and a de-orbiting device. The de-orbiting device includes a detonation engine fed with propellant by the main tank.
Abstract:
The invention relates to the field of propulsion assemblies, and in particular to rocket engines of the “expander” type, wherein at least one propulsion chamber (40) is fed with at least a first propellant by a first pump (33) coupled to a first turbine (34) that is driven by partial expansion of said first propellant upstream from said propulsion chamber (40) after passing, downstream from the first pump (33), through a heat exchanger (23) heated by said propulsion chamber (40). A method of the invention for controlling such a propulsion assembly (10) comprises the steps of determining whether there exists a risk of instability for the propulsion assembly (10), and in response to determining that said risk of instability exists, using a branch connection (28) situated between the first turbine (34) and the propulsion chamber (40) to shed a portion of said first propellant.
Abstract:
A blade for a turbomachine bladed wheel having N blades.At one end, the blade presents a platform that is formed integrally with an airfoil of the blade.Over a portion of the axial extent of the blade, a section through the platform wall on a plane perpendicular to the axis (X) of the wheel is constituted mainly by two first straight line segments arranged respectively on the two sides of the airfoil.Each of these segments forms an angle of 90°-180° /N relative to the radial direction on either side of the airfoil.
Abstract:
There is provided a method of and system for forecasting maintenance operations to be applied to an aircraft engine including a plurality of components monitored by damage counters, each damage counter being limited by a corresponding damage ceiling, the method including simulating consumption of the damage counters by iteratively drawing a series of simulation missions from a learning database; for each iteration, determining an accumulated consumption of each of the damage counters, until at least one damage counter related to a current simulation mission reaches a predetermined value limited by the damage ceiling associated with the damage counter; and applying a maintenance strategy on the current simulation mission to determine maintenance indicators representative of maintenance operations to be planned on the aircraft engine.
Abstract:
A rocket propulsion chamber and a method of fabricating such a propulsion chamber are provided. The propulsion chamber includes a combustion chamber, a wall of the combustion chamber having a cooling circuit wherein a first propellant flows. A thermostructural composite material shell is placed against the outside of the combustion chamber and including a diverging nozzle extending beyond the bottom end of the combustion chamber, wherein a fraction of the thermostructural composite material shell is covered in a radially strong outer reinforcing shell for containing deformation of the combustion chamber and thermostructural composite material shell, the thermostructural composite material shell and the outer reinforcing shell forming a unitary assembly.
Abstract:
A sealing device for a turbine engine bearing oil enclosure including a rotor shaft; an annular cover secured to an engine casing and arranged around the rotor shaft to co-operate therewith to define an oil enclosure that is to receive a bearing (8) rotatably supporting the rotor shaft relative to the engine casing; a labyrinth seal mounted on the rotor shaft facing one end of the cover; an annular rim mounted inside the cover; a dynamic annular gasket interposed radially between the rim and the rotor shaft; and a clip for axially blocking the rim inside the cover and including at least one latch passing radially through the rim and being received radially inside a groove formed in the cover, is provided.
Abstract:
A balanced turbomachine part including one angular sector arranged to form a balancing ring centered about a ring axis. The angular sector includes a plurality of fasteners, a bearing face having a complementary shape to the balancing ring, the angular sector bearing on the bearing face. The part further includes a plurality of balancing masses each fastened to the corresponding fastener of the angular sector, at least one of the balancing masses also acting as a fastener for fastening the angular sector on the bearing face.
Abstract:
A turbine ring assembly includes a ring support structure and a plurality of ring sectors made of CMC material and forming a turbine ring, each ring sector including an annular base with respective end portions having edges that are held facing an edge of the end portion of the annular base of a sector that is adjacent in the turbine ring. The assembly includes resilient holder devices for holding the ring sectors in position on the ring support structure, and each resilient holder device includes a spring element present beside the outside face of the ring support structure.