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Raytheon Technology Corporation

Charles P Gendrich

Matthew E Bintz

Troy Shannon Prince

Richard K Hayford

Eric W Malmborg

John C DiTomasso

Robert J Morris

Charles H Warner

Xuedong Zhou

Christopher St Mary

Andrew J Murphy

Kaliya Balamurugan

John Joseph Papalia

Zhen Wu

Joseph Wieser

Jeff M Carrico

Joseph Steele

Danoris Garcia-Chabrier

An aerostructure is provided. The aerostructure may comprise an airfoil extending from a leading edge to a trailing edge, the airfoil comprising a stiffness and a camber, and a shape memory alloy (SMA) mechanically coupled to the airfoil via a resin, the SMA configured to be coupled to a current source, wherein at least one of the stiffness or the camber changes in response to a phase change of the SMA.

Shape memory alloy variable stiffness airfoil

A gas turbine engine includes a circumferential array of stator vanes that have first and second vanes with different vibrational frequencies than one another. The first vanes are arranged in circumferentially alternating relationship with the second vanes.

Gas turbine engine stator vane mistuning

An airfoil has pressure and suction sides spaced apart from one another in a thickness direction and joined to one another at leading and trailing edges. The airfoil extends in a radial direction a span that is in a range of 0.70-0.83 inch (17.8-21.1 mm). A chord length extends in a chordwise direction from the leading edge to the trailing edge at 50% span is in a range of 0.34-0.45 inch (8.5-11.5 mm). The airfoil element includes at least three of a first mode with a frequency of 3748&#xb1;15% Hz, a second mode with a frequency of 6416&#xb1;15% Hz, a third mode with a frequency of 14418&#xb1;15% Hz, a fourth mode with a frequency of 17417&#xb1;15% Hz, a fifth mode with a frequency of 19326&#xb1;15% Hz and a sixth mode with a frequency of 26648&#xb1;15% Hz.

Gas turbine engine airfoil frequency design

In one exemplary embodiment, a gas turbine engine system for cooling engine components includes an engine core, a core housing containing the engine core, an engine core driven fan forward of the core housing, a nacelle surrounding the fan and the core housing, and a bypass duct defined between an outer diameter of the core housing and an inner diameter of the nacelle. Also included is a thermal management system having a coolant circuit including at least one of a first heat exchanger disposed on the inner diameter of the nacelle and a second heat exchanger disposed on a leading edge of a BiFi spanning the bypass duct. The first heat exchanger is in thermal communication with the second heat exchanger.

Thermal management system for a gas turbine engine with an integral oil tank and heat exchanger in the nacelle

A method is provided for monitoring one or more rotating turbine engine rotor blades using a processing system and a sensor having a measurement field. The method includes steps of: (i) providing measurement data from the sensor as a first of the rotor blades passes through the measurement field; (ii) correlating the measurement data with reference data as a function of time to provide correlation data; and (iii) processing the correlation data to determine a peak correlation value that corresponds to a point in time during the passage of the first of the rotor blades through the measurement field; wherein the correlating and the processing are performed by the processing system.

Monitoring one or more turbine engine rotor blades by correlating measurement data and reference data as a function of time

A gas turbine engine rotor drum includes spaced apart discs providing a cavity between the discs. The discs are configured to rotate in a rotational direction about an axis. An annular support is mounted on at least one of the discs and within the cavity. A cascade of relatively short anti-vortex members is mounted circumferentially on the annular support. The anti-vortex members are tubular in shape and provide a radially extending passage. The anti-vortex members include an outer end having a circumferential side with an opening in fluid communication with the radial passage.

Turbine engine rotating cavity anti-vortex cascade

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Charles P Gendrich