Method and apparatus for analyzing computed tomography data

    公开(公告)号:US12299782B2

    公开(公告)日:2025-05-13

    申请号:US17726704

    申请日:2022-04-22

    Abstract: A method of analyzing computed tomography data according to an example embodiment of the present disclosure includes obtaining computed tomography (CT) data for a component, fitting an interpolant function to the CT data, and creating a mesh of a surface that extends through the component. The surface is arbitrary and non-planar. The method also includes querying the interpolant function at a plurality of points of the mesh to project the CT data onto the mesh, calculating a metric of the component based on the querying, and providing a notification of the metric. A system for computed tomography analysis is also disclosed. A method of analyzing computed tomography data for a component of a gas turbine engine that includes calculating a void area fraction is also disclosed.

    Aircraft propulsion system geartrain

    公开(公告)号:US12292005B2

    公开(公告)日:2025-05-06

    申请号:US17980670

    申请日:2022-11-04

    Abstract: An aircraft assembly includes a geartrain with a first gear system and a second gear system. The first gear system includes a first sun gear, a first ring gear, a plurality of first intermediate gears and a first carrier. The first sun gear and the first ring gear are each rotatable about an axis. The first intermediate gears are between and meshed with the first sun gear and the first ring gear. Each of the first intermediate gears is rotatably mounted to the first carrier. The second gear system is interconnected with the first gear system. The second gear system includes a second sun gear, a second ring gear, a plurality of second intermediate gears and a second carrier. The second intermediate gears are between and meshed with the second sun gear and the second ring gear. Each of the second intermediate gears is rotatably mounted to the second carrier.

    Environmental barrier coating
    3.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US12291783B2

    公开(公告)日:2025-05-06

    申请号:US17402801

    申请日:2021-08-16

    Abstract: An example article according to the present disclosure includes, among other possible things, a metallic substrate, and a bond coat on the metallic substrate. The bond coat includes a matrix phase, gettering particles in the matrix phase, wherein the gettering particles are reactive with oxidants, and a dispersion of matrix modifier particles in the matrix phase. The example article also includes a diffusion barrier between the bond coat and the metallic substrate, wherein the diffusion barrier is configured to inhibit diffusion of components from the bond coat into the metallic substrate. An example composite material and method of applying a barrier to a substrate are also disclosed.

    Phonic wheel for turbine engine
    4.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US12281584B2

    公开(公告)日:2025-04-22

    申请号:US18202750

    申请日:2023-05-26

    Abstract: An assembly is provided for a turbine engine. This turbine engine assembly includes a rotating assembly configured to rotate about an axis. The rotating assembly includes an engine component and a phonic wheel. The engine component includes a first material and a plurality of apertures arranged circumferentially about the axis. The phonic wheel includes a second material and a plurality of teeth arranged circumferentially about the axis. Each of the teeth projects axially into a respective one of the apertures. One of the first material and the second material is or otherwise includes non-ferromagnetic material. Another one of the first material and the second material is or otherwise includes ferromagnetic material.

    Wishbone fiber layup structure for airfoil

    公开(公告)号:US12241385B2

    公开(公告)日:2025-03-04

    申请号:US18353196

    申请日:2023-07-17

    Abstract: An airfoil wall that includes a wishbone-shaped fiber layup structure that has first and second arms that merge into a single leg. The leg includes fiber tows from each of the arms and the tows are interwoven in the leg. Each of the arms includes a first section that is distal from the leg and a second section that is proximal to the leg. The first section defines a first thickness and a first fiber tow count. The second section defines a second thickness that is greater than the first thickness and a second fiber tow count that is greater than the first fiber tow count. The single leg defines a third thickness that is greater than the second thickness and a third fiber tow count that is greater than the second fiber tow count.

    Article and method for manufacturing an expanded combustor liner

    公开(公告)号:US12234986B2

    公开(公告)日:2025-02-25

    申请号:US16930797

    申请日:2020-07-16

    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a nested combustor liner includes manufacturing a nested combustor liner into a green state including a plurality of annular interior walls radially adjacent to one another and circumferentially surrounding an exhaust duct aperture and a plurality of annular exterior walls radially adjacent to one another and radially spaced apart from and circumferentially surrounding the plurality of annular interior walls and an ignitor wall attached to a first annular interior wall at a first interior end, extending radially toward and attached to a first annular exterior wall at a first exterior end. The method includes assembling the plurality of annular interior walls and the plurality of annular exterior walls, forming an assembled combustor liner. The method includes densifying the assembled combustor liner.

    IMAGE ANALYSIS METHOD FOR MULTI-PHASE SYSTEM WITH OVERLAPPING GRAYSCALE INTENSITIES

    公开(公告)号:US20250029268A1

    公开(公告)日:2025-01-23

    申请号:US18223912

    申请日:2023-07-19

    Inventor: Evan B. Callaway

    Abstract: A method for determining coating thicknesses of a coated fiber embedded in a matrix is presented. A scanning electron microscope (SEM) image is captured of a composite material having multiple coated fibers embedded in a matrix. This image depicts a cross-sectional portion of the composite material. A processor identifies a region of the image depicting a cross-section of one among the plurality of coated fibers, and generates a line graph of a gradient of grayscale values as a function of a line scan. The line scan traverses across the image along a radius of the coated fiber, and extends between an interior location of the coated fiber and an exterior region outside the coated fiber. The processor identifies inflection points in the line graph of the gradient of grayscale values as a function of the line scan traverse location, and determines coating thickness based on these inflection points.

    TURBINE ENGINE VANE ARRAY STRUCTURE WITH AIR PARTICLE SEPARATOR

    公开(公告)号:US20250027447A1

    公开(公告)日:2025-01-23

    申请号:US18224938

    申请日:2023-07-21

    Inventor: Christine Kelsey

    Abstract: An assembly is provided for a turbine engine. This assembly includes a vane array structure and an air particle separator. The vane array structure includes an inner platform, an outer platform and a plurality of vanes. The inner platform forms an inner peripheral boundary of a flowpath through the vane array structure. The outer platform forms an outer peripheral boundary of the flowpath through the vane array structure. The vanes are arranged circumferentially about an axis. Each of the vanes extends radially across the flowpath from the inner platform to the outer platform. The vanes include a first vane. The air particle separator is arranged within the first vane.

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