Societe Nationale D'etude Et De Construction De Moteurs D'aviation

Christine J Ambrogi

Denis R Ansart

Serge M Meunier

Denis J Sandelis

Eric J Lancelot

A wall structure for a wall bounding a combustion chamber of a gas turbine engine is disclosed having a first wall with an inner surface facing towards the interior of the combustion chamber and an outer surface facing away from the interior of the combustion chamber such that the inner surface forms a boundary of the combustion chamber and the outer surface has a surface roughness to prevent the formation of a fluid flow cooling layer which would cool the outer surface. The invention also has a second wall spaced from the outer surface of the first wall in a direction away from the interior of the combustion chamber so as to define a cooling fluid circulatory space between the first and second walls. A plurality of first perforations extend through the first wall in communication with the cooling fluid circulatory space to enable passage of cooling fluid from the space through the first perforations to form a cooling fluid film on the inner surface of the first wall.

Double wall construction for a gas turbine combustion chamber

A cladded combustion chamber construction is disclosed in which the cladd tiles can be assembled and replaced without the necessity of disassembling the structural wall of the combustion chamber. The combustion chamber has a generally cylindrical wall with external and internal surfaces bounding the combustion chamber and has a plurality of cladding tiles located on one of the external and internal surfaces of the wall. To attach the cladding tiles to the combustion chamber structure, a plurality of channel shaped attaching devices are utilized extending in a generally circumferential direction around the wall of the combustion chamber and having a portion extending generally parallel to the wall, but spaced from the wall. The portion extending parallel to the wall of the combustion chamber has a circumferentially extending cut out portion whose circumferential length is slightly greater than the width of a cladding tile. The channel shaped attaching devices are spaced axially along the wall of the combustion chamber and are spaced apart a distance slightly greater than a length of a cladding tile. In order to attach the cladding tile to the combustion chamber wall, it is merely necessary to place one end of the tile in one of the channel members and to pass the other end of the tile through the circumferential cut out of the other attaching channel.

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Courcouronnes, France

Christine J Ambrogi