Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Additively manufactured bladed-disk having blades with integral tuned mass absorbers
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Application No.: US17406736Application Date: 2021-08-19
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Publication No.: US11808166B1Publication Date: 2023-11-07
- Inventor: Andrew Michael Brown
- Applicant: United States of America as represented by the Administrator of NASA
- Applicant Address: US DC Washington
- Assignee: United States of America as represented by the Administrator of NASA
- Current Assignee: United States of America as represented by the Administrator of NASA
- Current Assignee Address: US DC Washington
- Agent Jerry L. Seemann; Trenton J. Roche
- Main IPC: F01D5/16
- IPC: F01D5/16 ; F01D5/18 ; B33Y80/00

Abstract:
Embodiments of an additively fabricated turbine blade having an integral tuned mass absorber are disclosed herein. The tuned mass absorber has an elliptical cross-section that results in the suppression of blade vibrations in at least two orthogonal modes of vibration. The tuned mass absorber is formed simultaneously during the additive fabrication of the blade. In an embodiment, the tuned mass absorber extends spanwise. In another embodiment, the tuned mass absorber extends chordwise. The dynamic responses of these spanwise and chordwise tuned mass absorbers are analytically predictable such that the dynamic responses may be incorporated into the design process of the turbine blade.
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