Abstract:
A gas turbine engine airfoil includes a platform, and spaced apart walls that provide an exterior airfoil surface that extends radially from the platform to an end opposite the platform. A serpentine cooling passage is arranged between the walls and has a first passageway that extends from the platform toward the end and a second passageway fluidly connecting to the first passageway and extending from the end toward the platform to an end. A platform cooling passageway is fluidly connected to the end and extends transversely into the platform. A cooling hole fluidly connects the platform cooling passageway to an exterior surface.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a gas turbine engine including a compressor section and a turbine section. The gas turbine engine includes a gas turbine engine component having a first wall providing an outer surface of the gas turbine engine component and a second wall spaced-apart from the first wall. The first wall is a gas-path wall exposed to a core flow path of the gas turbine engine. The second wall is a non-gas-path wall. A cooling passageway is provided between the second wall and the first wall. The second wall has a trip strip provided thereon.
Abstract:
One embodiment includes a method to regenerate a component (10). The method includes additively manufacturing a component (10) to have voids greater than 0 percent but less than approximately 15 percent in a near finished shape. The component (10) is encased in a shell mold (22). The shell mold (22) is cured. The encased component (10) is placed in a furnace and the component (10) is melted. The component (10) is solidified in the shell mold (22). The shell mold (22) is removed from the solidified component (10).
Abstract:
An airfoil includes a leading edge, a trailing edge region, a suction surface, a pressure surface, a cooling passageway, and a column of flow separators. The trailing edge region is located axially downstream from the leading edge and terminates in a trailing edge. The suction surface and the pressure surface both extend axially between the leading edge and the trailing edge region, as well as radially from a root section of the airfoil to a tip section of the airfoil to define a central cavity of the airfoil. The cooling passageway is located within the central cavity at the trailing edge region. The column of flow separators are located in the cooling passageway adjacent the trailing edge. The column of flow separators includes a first flow separator having a first longitudinal axis and a second flow separator having a second longitudinal axis. The first longitudinal axis is offset at an angle with respect to the first longitudinal axis.
Abstract:
REFRACTORY METAL CORE WALL THICKNESS CONTROL In accordance with the present invention, a casting system is provided which broadly comprises a core and a wax die spaced from said core, a refractory metal core having a first end seated within a slot in the core and a second end contacting the wax die for positioning the core relative to the wax die, and the refractory metal core having at least one of a mechanism for providing spring loading when closed in the wax die and a mechanism for mechanically locking the wax die to the core.
Abstract:
In accordance with the present invention, a casting system is provided which broadly comprises a core and a wax die spaced from said core, a refractory metal cor e having a first end seated within a slot in the core and a second end contacting the wax die for positioning the core relative to the wax die, and the refractory metal core having at least one o f a mechanism for providing spring loading when closed in the wax die and a mechanism for mechanically locking the wax die to the core.
Abstract:
A method of forming a metal single crystal turbine component (10) with internal passageways includes forming a polycrystalline turbine blade with internal passageways by additive manufacturing and filling the passageways with a core ceramic slurry. The ceramic slurry is then treated to harden the core (20) and the turbine component is encased in a ceramic shell which is treated to form a ceramic mold. The turbine component in the mold is then melted and directionally solidified in the form of a single crystal. The outer shell and inner ceramic core are then removed to form a finished single crystal turbine component with internal passageways.
Abstract:
An airfoil for a gas turbine engine, according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a pressure side wall and a suction side wall spaced apart from the pressure side wall and each extending between a leading edge portion and a trailing edge portion. A plurality of cutback openings are spaced along a radial axis of the suction side wall.