General Electric Company

Eric Dean Jorgensen

Apostolos Pavlos Karafillis

Leonardo Ajdelsztajn

Jonathan Harry Kerner

Craig Douglas Young

A component for a turbine engine may be formed by spraying particulate with a nozzle toward a substrate. The particulate may be deposited to form one or more annular layers and a reinforcing structure. The component may be a closed loop annular component having a reinforcing structure of specific dimensions enabled by the methods described.

Cold spray duct for a gas turbine engine

Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for a structure of an engine component, including a first plurality of unit cells offset from a neutral plane in a first direction, a second plurality of unit cells offset from the neutral plane in a second direction, a plurality of nodes joining ones of the first plurality of unit cells and ones of the second plurality of unit cells, wherein the first plurality of unit cells and the second plurality of unit cells are arranged in pairs such that ones of the first plurality of unit cells are laterally adjacent to and interconnected with ones of the second plurality of unit cells, and wherein the structure is a stiffened structure.

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Lynn, MA, United States of America

Eric Dean Jorgensen