Abstract:
A gas turbine engine compressor blade includes an airfoil and a root section connected to a blade platform therebetween and an at least partially curved cropped corner of the blade platform. The corner shape and size may avoid resonance of blade during engine operation. Corner may be J-shaped including a straight section extending from pressure side edge towards suction side edge of platform and curved section extending from straight section to uncropped portion of platform trailing edge of the platform. A method of designing the cropped corner includes choosing shapes sizes of the cropped corner for numerically analyzing and determining shape and size for cropped corner using numerical model to iteratively numerically analyze aerodynamically cropped platform with different shapes and sizes of cropped corner. Numerical model may be validated with engine or component testing of blade having a cropped platform with at least one of the shapes and sizes.
Abstract:
A composite airfoil comprises a leading edge and a trailing edge, a pressure side and a suction side extending between the leading edge and the trailing edge, a tip at a radial outer end of the airfoil, a shank at a radial inner end of the airfoil, a dovetail connected to the shank, and a metal patch disposed between the dovetail and the shank.
Abstract:
A composite blade includes a composite airfoil section having airfoil pressure and suction sides extending chordwise between airfoil leading and trailing edges, a dovetail root attached to airfoil section and a blade shank therebetween, and a metallic leading edge shield covering an axially extending portion of airfoil section including at least a portion of airfoil leading edge and a radially and chordwise extending portion of a leading edge portion of the blade shank. Leading edge portion may be cut back from airfoil leading edge and a shank leading edge aft or downstream of airfoil leading edge. A nose may extend along a shield leading edge of the metallic leading edge shield with pressure and suction side legs extending aftwardly from nose along airfoil pressure and suction sides. Light weight insert may be located between nose and airfoil leading edges.
Abstract:
A method for making a metallic leading edge guard of the type having a nose with first and second wings extending therefrom is disclosed. The method includes machining from a metallic blank a first half comprising a first portion of the nose and one of the wings, wherein the first portion of the nose includes an interface surface; and electroforming a second half comprising a second portion of the nose and the second wing, wherein the second half is joined to the first half at the interface surface.
Abstract:
A platform apparatus for a propulsion rotor having an annular array of airfoils carried by a rotor disk. The apparatus includes: at least one forward segment comprising an arcuate forward body having a plurality of spaced-apart axially-extending forward fingers, each of the forward fingers bounded by a curved first lateral edge interconnected to a straight second lateral edge by an aft edge, wherein the forward segment defines a flow path surface and an opposed back surface; at least one aft segment comprising an arcuate aft body having a plurality of spaced-apart actually-extending aft fingers, each of the aft fingers bounded by a curved first lateral edge interconnected to a straight second lateral edge by a forward edge, wherein the aft segment defines a flow path surface and an opposed back surface, and wherein the aft edges have a shape complementary to a shape of the forward edges.
Abstract:
A platform apparatus for a propulsion rotor having an annular array of airfoils carried by a rotor disk. The apparatus includes: at least one forward segment comprising an arcuate forward body having a plurality of spaced-apart axially-extending forward fingers, each of the forward fingers bounded by a curved first lateral edge interconnected to a straight second lateral edge by an aft edge, wherein the forward segment defines a flow path surface and an opposed back surface; at least one aft segment comprising an arcuate aft body having a plurality of spaced-apart actually-extending aft fingers, each of the aft fingers bounded by a curved first lateral edge interconnected to a straight second lateral edge by a forward edge, wherein the aft segment defines a flow path surface and an opposed back surface, and wherein the aft edges have a shape complementary to a shape of the forward edges.
Abstract:
A wind turbine includes multiple blades, multiple Micro Inertial Measurement Units (MIMUs) for sensing parameter signals of the blades, and a control system. The control system includes a blade bending moment calculation unit, a blade bending moment error signal calculation unit, and a pitch angle compensation command calculation unit. The blade bending moment calculation unit is used for calculating blade bending moment values of the blades based at least on the sensed parameters. The blade bending moment error signal calculation unit is used for calculating blade bending moment error signals of the blades based on the calculated blade bending moment values of the blades and multiple blade bending moment commands. The pitch angle compensation command calculation unit is used for calculating pitch angle compensation commands of the blades based on the calculated blade bending moment error signals to adjust pitch angles of the blades respectively.
Abstract:
A gas turbine engine compressor blade includes an airfoil and a root section connected to a blade platform therebetween and an at least partially curved cropped corner of the blade platform. The corner shape and size may avoid resonance of blade during engine operation. The corner may be J-shaped including a straight section extending from the pressure side edge towards the suction side edge of the platform and a curved section extending from the straight section to an uncropped portion of the platform trailing edge of the platform. A method of designing the cropped corner includes choosing shapes and sizes of the cropped corner for numerically analyzing and determining shape and size for the cropped corner using a numerical model to iteratively numerically analyze aerodynamically the cropped platform with different shapes and sizes of the cropped corner. The numerical model may be validated with engine or component testing of the blade having a cropped platform with at least one of the shapes and sizes.
Abstract:
A system includes a turbomachine with a plurality of blades, a casing disposed about the rotor and the plurality of blades, an access opening disposed in the casing, and an access panel selectively coupled to the access opening, such that the access opening is sized to enable repair or replacement of at least one blade of the plurality of blades.
Abstract:
A composite blade includes a composite airfoil section having airfoil pressure and suction sides extending chordwise between airfoil leading and trailing edges, a dovetail root attached to airfoil section and a blade shank therebetween, and a metallic leading edge shield covering an axially extending portion of airfoil section including at least a portion of airfoil leading edge and a radially and chordwise extending portion of a leading edge portion of the blade shank. Leading edge portion may be cut back from airfoil leading edge and a shank leading edge aft or downstream of airfoil leading edge. A nose may extend along a shield leading edge of the metallic leading edge shield with pressure and suction side legs extending aftwardly from nose along airfoil pressure and suction sides. Light weight insert may be located between nose and airfoil leading edges.