Abstract:
A gas turbine engine ceramic panel assembly includes a ceramic liner that has a slot and includes a hole. An insert is received in the slot and provides a female fastening element aligned with the hole. A method of manufacturing a ceramic panel assembly includes the steps of forming a ceramic liner with a slot, installing an insert into the slot, and securing the ceramic liner to a structure using a fastening assembly.
Abstract:
A self-contained computerized system includes a processor and a memory. The memory stores instructions for causing the self-contained computerized system to perform the process of morphing a finite element mesh of a legacy design to the finite element mesh of a component design and applying measurement variations from the legacy design to the finite element mesh of the component design.
Abstract:
A gas turbine engine ceramic panel assembly includes a ceramic liner that has a slot and includes a hole. An insert is received in the slot and provides a female fastening element aligned with the hole. A method of manufacturing a ceramic panel assembly includes the steps of forming a ceramic liner with a slot, installing an insert into the slot, and securing the ceramic liner to a structure using a fastening assembly.
Abstract:
An engine and particle decelerator is provided herein. The engine having: an inlet opening for directing air towards a compressor of the engine; and a particle decelerator located between the inlet opening and the compressor such that air travelling towards the compressor from the inlet opening must travel through the particle decelerator and wherein an area of the particle decelerator is greater than an inlet and an outlet of the particle decelerator.
Abstract:
A combustor thermal shield is provided. The combustor thermal shield may have a combustor panel that may protect a surface of a combustor from heat and/or flame. The combustor thermal shield may be mounted to the combustor by an attachment stud formed as a unitary body with the combustor panel. The combustor panel and the attachment stud may be made of different materials. A transition region may be disposed between the attachment stud and the combustor thermal shield and formed as a unitary body with the combustor panel and the attachment stud. The transition region may be made of a mixture of the different materials. The mixture may vary according to a gradient as a function of proximity to the combustor panel and the attachment stud.
Abstract:
A fairing assembly for a gas turbine engine includes an inner fairing platform; an outer fairing platform located radially outward of the inner fairing platform; a plurality of vanes radially outward from the inner fairing platform between the inner fairing platform and outer fairing platform; a mount located on a radially outer side of the outer fairing platform, the mount attached to the outer fairing platform on the radially outer side; and a link that includes an elongated member with a first end and an opposite second end, the first end configured to fit within the mount and define a pivot axis of the link with respect to the mount.
Abstract:
A connector between a first object having a first coefficient of thermal expansion and a second object having a second coefficient of thermal expansion has a slot attaching to the second object. The slot formed by an inner shell having a slot shape and a first portion that blends into an outer surface of the second object, the slot having an enclosed portion facing forward and an aft portion that is open.
Abstract:
A method for implementing a component design model includes defining a component design specification, defining at least one variation mode parameter of a component manufacturing process, constructing a parametric model relating the at least one variation mode parameter to the component design specification, determining an expected component output based on the parametric model and comparing the expected component output to at least one as-manufactured component, and defining the parametric model as accurate in response to the expected output component matching the at least one as-manufactured component within a predefined degree of accuracy.
Abstract:
A self-contained computerized system includes a processor and a memory. The memory stores instructions for causing the self-contained computerized system to perform the process of morphing a finite element mesh of a legacy design to the finite element mesh of a component design and applying measurement variations from the legacy design to the finite element mesh of the component design.