Abstract:
An additive manufacturing system utilizing an epitaxy process, and method of manufacture, utilizes a heating source and a cooling source to control thermal gradients and a solidification rate of each slice of a workpiece manufactured from a seed having a directional grain microstructure. An energy gun is utilized to melt selected regions of each successive layer of a plurality layers of a powder in a powder bed to successively form each solidified slice of the workpiece.
Abstract:
One exemplary embodiment of this disclosure relates to a gas turbine engine including a first engine component and a second engine component. The first engine component has a mate face adjacent a mate face of the second engine component. The engine further includes a seal between the mate face of the first engine component and the mate face of the second engine component. The seal establishes three points of contact with each mate face in at least one condition.
Abstract:
A workpiece manufactured from an additive manufacturing system (AMS) having a particle separator and a method of operating includes modeling the workpiece into layers and modeling the layers into a plurality of regions. The AMS then deposits one of a plurality of particle types into a respective one of the plurality of regions. In this way, the surface finishes of the component may be controlled and material densities from one region to the next and from one layer to the next are also controlled.
Abstract:
A blade outer air seal includes a seal arc segment that has a surface layer and an array of internal pockets. The surface layer defines a radially inner side of the seal arc segment. The surface layers conformal with the array of internal pockets such that the surface layer includes an array of ridges that correspond in location and shape to the array of internal pockets.
Abstract:
An exemplary blade outer air seal component includes at least one first region of a first material, at least one second region of a second material, and at least one functionally graded transition region of the first material and the second material between a first region and a second region of the component. A thermal expansion coefficient of the first material is higher than a thermal expansion coefficient of the second material.
Abstract:
A component for use in a gas turbine engine includes a first section, a second section, and a functionally graded section. The first section is made of a metal material. The second section is made of a ceramic material and/or a ceramic matrix composite material. The functionally graded section is disposed between the first section and the second section.
Abstract:
An additive manufacturing system and method of operation includes a build table for supporting a powder bed that is packed through the use of a vibration inducing device proximate to the build table. Through this packing, voids of the bed produced by larger particles of a mixed powder are filled with smaller particles. After or during such packing of particles, the powder bed is leveled utilizing a leveling arm, then selected regions of the bed are melted utilizing an energy gun.
Abstract:
A method of additively manufacturing is used to produce a component with an internal cooling channel for conveying a fluid. Powders in a powder bed are selectively fused to form a shaped layer of a body of the cooled component. The fusing is repeated on a layer-by-layer basis to form the body of the component with the internal cooling channel extending within the body, so that a peripheral wall of the internal cooling channel has a geometry that allows the peripheral wall to be self-supporting.
Abstract:
An additive manufacturing system utilizing an epitaxy process, and method of manufacture, utilizes a heating source and a cooling source to control thermal gradients and a solidification rate of each slice of a workpiece manufactured from a seed having a directional grain microstructure. An energy gun is utilized to melt selected regions of each successive layer of a plurality layers of a powder in a powder bed to successively form each solidified slice of the workpiece.
Abstract:
A workpiece manufactured from an additive manufacturing system (AMS) having a particle separator and a method of operating includes modeling the workpiece into layers and modeling the layers into a plurality of regions. The AMS then deposits one of a plurality of particle types into a respective one of the plurality of regions. In this way, the surface finishes of the component may be controlled and material densities from one region to the next and from one layer to the next are also controlled.