Abstract:
Thermal lifting members for blade outer air seal supports of gas turbine engines include a hollow body defining a thermal cavity therein, at least one inlet fluid connector fluidly connected to the thermal cavity configured to supply hot fluid to the thermal cavity from a fluid source, at least one outlet fluid connector fluidly connected to the thermal cavity configured to allow the hot fluid to exit the thermal cavity, and at least one lifting hook configured to engage with a blade outer air seal support, wherein the thermal lifting member is configured to thermally expand outward when hot fluid is passed through the thermal cavity such that during thermal expansion the at least one lifting hook forces the blade outer air seal support to move outward.
Abstract:
A calibration circuit includes a single-wire memory and a transmission line. The single-wire memory includes a power/interrogation terminal and a ground terminal. The single-wire memory is configured to store calibration data for a sensor. The transmission line is configured to be coupled between the sensor and a sensor reader. The transmission line includes first and second conductors. The first conductor is coupled to the power/interrogation terminal and is configured to provide the calibration data and a sensor output signal to the sensor reader. The second conductor is coupled to the ground terminal and is configured to provide a ground reference for the first conductor, the single-wire memory, and the sensor.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a method for dimensioning a turbomachine comprising a casing and a disc to which at least one blade is secured, said disc being rotationally driven by a shaft about a turbomachine axis (z), comprising:—acquisition (E1) of the coordinates (P) of the ends of the leading edge and of the trailing edge of the blade in a frame of reference connected with the disc;—expression (E2) of the coordinates (P′) of the ends of the leading edge and of the trailing edge of the blade in a frame of reference connected with the casing;—calculation (E3) of the distance (g) between the casing and the ends of the leading edge and trailing edge of the blade from the coordinates (P′) expressed in the frame of reference connected with the casing;—calculation (E4) of the contact pressures between the blade and the casing along the end of the blade from the calculated distance (g);—calculation (E5) of the reaction forces and moments resulting from contact between the blade and the casing from the calculated pressures;—dimensioning (E6) of the turbomachine as a function of the calculated distances, pressures, forces and moments.
Abstract:
A seal assembly for a rotary machine is provided. The seal assembly includes multiple sealing device segments disposed circumferentially intermediate to a stationary housing and a rotor. Each of the segments includes a shoe plate with a forward-shoe section and an aft-shoe section having one or more labyrinth teeth therebetween facing the rotor. The sealing device includes a stator interface element having a groove or slot for allowing disposal of a spline seal for preventing segment leakages. The sealing device segment also includes multiple bellow springs or flexures connected to the shoe plate and to the stator interface element. Further, the sealing device segments include a secondary seal integrated with the stator interface element at one end and positioned about the multiple bellow springs or flexures and the shoe plate at the other end.
Abstract:
A calibration circuit includes a single-wire memory and a transmission line. The single-wire memory includes a power/interrogation terminal and a ground terminal. The single-wire memory is configured to store calibration data for a sensor. The transmission line is configured to be coupled between the sensor and a sensor reader. The transmission line includes first and second conductors. The first conductor is coupled to the power/interrogation terminal and is configured to provide the calibration data and a sensor output signal to the sensor reader. The second conductor is coupled to the ground terminal and is configured to provide a ground reference for the first conductor, the single-wire memory, and the sensor.
Abstract:
Various methods and systems are provided for an axial turbine including a containment shroud. In one example, an axial turbine for use in an engine system comprises a turbine disc/blisk and a shroud housing the turbine disc/blisk, the shroud including a first region, a second region, and a third region. A thickness of the second region is dependent on a length between the first region and the third region, and the third region has a burst strength that under a burst condition retains one or more fragments of the turbine disc/blisk.
Abstract:
Turbine and compressor casing/housing abradable component embodiments for turbine engines, have abradable surfaces with ridges projecting from the abradable surface, separated by grooves. The ridges have one or both sidewalls inclined against the opposing turbine blade tip rotational direction for redirecting and/or dissipating blade tip gap leakage airflow energy. In some embodiments the ridge tip and/or groove base have inclined profiles for redirecting airflow leakage away from the blade tip gap. In some embodiments, the inclined ridge tip profile provides a progressive wear zone that increases abradable surface area as the inclined ridge is abraded by the rotating blade tip.
Abstract:
A steel soft wall fan case assembly according to one embodiment configured with a thin-walled steel support structure shell including a plurality of annular axial walls of thin sheet metal reinforced by a plurality of rings interconnecting axially adjacent annular axial walls. The steel support structure shell is structurally integrated with honeycomb materials and an annular metallic inner wall. A fabric containment layer may be wrapped around one of the annular axial walls of the steel support structure shell.
Abstract:
A gas turbine includes a turbine having a rotor blade row and a ring that is arranged around the rotor blade row and is made up of multiple ring segments. An insert element covers a recess of a ring segment body of the turbine. The ring segment body has a recess on a hot-gas side. The insert element has a concavely shaped front face and a rear face with a rear face profile, and the rear face profile corresponds to a negative shape of a profile of the recess. A mounting method includes an insert element fixed to a recess of a ring segment body of a turbine of a gas turbine.