Abstract:
A rotor for a turbo machine, in particular for a gas turbine, is disclosed. The rotor includes a rotor base body and several rotor blades arranged over the circumference of the rotor base body, in which case the rotor base body is manufactured of an MMC composite material, and in which case the rotor blades are an integral part of the rotor. The rotor base body is configured in the shape of a ring, in which case the ring-shaped rotor base body includes, in a radially internal section, at least one groove-like recess which is filled radially on the inside with fibers exhibiting tensile strength.
Abstract:
A blade for a fluid flow engine, especially a gas turbine, has a protective coating against injurious attack by the propellant or working medium. A metal blade having a diffusion layer or a sprayed coating for inhibiting corrosion is known. Such coating renders the blade highly resistant against heavily erosive and corrosive attack, especially by pulverized coal combustion gas or similar agents. The present blade is made of ceramic material, especially a dense ceramic material with a surface layer of at least one of the following materials: TiN, TiC, B.sub.4 C, BN and titanium carbon nitride. These materials are easy to apply and provide a good bond with the ceramic material. If the ceramic materials are silicon carbide (SiC) or silicon nitride (Si.sub.3 N.sub.4) an especially good bond is achieved. This coating strongly resists removal, as it does oxidation and heat. Local removal down to the ceramic material, as it may result from rather long service, is recognizable immediately. These coating materials can be applied to give adequate quality and satisfactory repeatability by using the known CVD (chemically vapor deposited) or the PVD (physical vapor deposited) process.
Abstract:
Circumferential gap seal for axial-flow machines including a metallic retaining flange mounted within the machine casing and which is connected to a metallic ring through flexible side walls, wherein the side walls, the metallic ring and the retaining flange are subdivided into a plurality of segments in the circumferential direction. The thereby formed radially directed gaps are sealed over the radial height of the side walls through flexible radial walls. The radial height is variable in dependence upon the measured size of the circumferential gap between the tip of the rotor blades of the machine and the metallic ring.
Abstract:
A rotor wheel including a hub in the form of a thin-walled shell. Rotor blades are arranged in an annular pattern around the axis of the hub, each blade having at least one blade root formed with a hole. A pin extends through the hole in each blade root, and at least one retaining ring coaxial with the hub axis surrounds all the pins and absorbs radial forces produced by the blades on the pins when the rotor wheel rotates. The retaining rings and blades are fixed against axial and circumferential movement with respect to the hub. A segment between each pin and retaining ring distributes the forces of the pin to the retaining ring. The pins are mounted for radial movement with respect to the hub, and one of the mounting parts for said pins may be detachable from the hub. The hub may be dish shaped, and the pins secured at only one end to the peripheral wall of the hub, that wall having axial slots so that it may expand radially.
Abstract:
A gas turbine vane, especially a vane pertaining to an aircraft engine, comprising a blade and a vane footing. The blade is defined by a flow inlet edge or a front edge, a flow outlet edge or a rear edge, and a blade surface extending between the front edge and the rear edge and forming a suction side and a pressure side. The suction side of the blade includes at least one microprofiled or microstructured region for optimizing the flow around the blade.
Abstract:
A rotor for a propulsion plant has hybrid rotor blades arranged circumferentially around and extending essentially radially from a rotor. To reduce vibrations, the rotor blade has a metallic blade root and each blade has a metallic blade section that forms at least a portion of the blade leading edge and the area of the blade surface adjacent to the blade leading edge, and a blade section made of fiber-reinforced synthetic material or composite material. The blade sections (3, 4) of each blade (1) are so correlated to each other that damage or loss of the composite material blade section (4) still enables the propulsion plant to deliver a required emergency power.
Abstract:
A structural component is formed with an outer shell of sintered, solid, powder particles, and a porous core of sintered, hollow, bodies arranged in layers. The hollow bodies are of increased diameter in the layers in a direction from the outer periphery of the core towards the center of the core. The material of the outer shell and of the core is a metal or ceramic.
Abstract:
A drive system with a combustion engine also has a turbo-charger with a shaft supported by sleeve bearings in a housing. The housing is connected to the cooling water circulating circuit of the drive system for cooling the sleeve bearings and the housing of the turbo-charger shaft simultaneously with cooling the engine. A water pump wheel is mounted on the shaft in the housing for circulating the cooling water through the bearings, through the housing, and through the cooling circuit of the combustion engine, whereby the supply of cooling water to the sleeve bearings is load dependent.
Abstract:
A method of manufacturing molded articles of metal alloys, especially of nickel-base alloys, chromium-base alloys, titanium-base alloys, and dispersion-hardened alloys. A powder of the alloy, or a blend of powders of alloy constituents, is mixed with one or more plastics, selected from thermoplastics, duroplastics, and internal lubricants to form an injectionable granulate compound, the plastic content amounting to about 30% to 50% by volume. The compound is prepared by dissolving the plastic in a solvent which will not attack the base material of the alloy, and by blending it with the metal powder, after which the solvent is evaporated. The injectionable granulate compound is then injection molded to form a molded article. By heat treatment at 600.degree. C. or below in inert gas the plastic is eliminated from the molded article. The article is then sintered. To improve its strength, the article may subsequently be subjected to hot isostatic pressing. This improves the mechanical properties (especially fatigue strength) of molded articles.
Abstract:
A finished ceramic airfoil is provided having within it a lining of thermal insulation and a fusible core having the desired contour of the metal core of the turbine blade. A casting mold is provided around the airfoil. The fusible core is melted and removed, leaving a cavity in the airfoil surrounded by the insulation lining. The cavity is filled with molten metal which is allowed to solidify to form the metal core of the turbine blade.