General Electric Company

General Electric Technology Gmbh

James Albert Tallman

Stephen Francis Rutkowski

Gary Michael Itzel

Eric John Ruggiero

Lawrence Bernard Kool

Victor John Morgan

Peter Joel Meschter

Pradeep Salapakkam

Eric James Tucker

William Dwight Gerstler

Curtis Alan Johnson

Zachary John Snider

Hendrik Pieter Jacobus De Bock

Gregory Thomas Foster

Andrew Philip Shapiro

Konrad Roman Weeber

Brendon James Leary

Nicholas William Rathay

Brian Gene Brzek

Jacob John Kittleson

Robert Frank Hoskin

Karthik Kumar Bodla

Thomas Raymond Farrell

James Fredric Wiedenhoefer

Richard Brownell Arthur

Tyler Christopher Henson

Grant Henson

Adam Franklin Stevenson

Peter Matthew Schmid

Jeffrey Michael Iannotti

Andrew Louis Gallo, Jr

Vincent Michael Russo

Brady Michael Hildebrand

Bradley Thomas Richards

Earl Thomas Dyson

Vince Russo

Andy Gallo

Robert Zacharias

Douglas Evan King

David Charles Harry Ward

A thrust chamber assembly includes a monolithic preform defining a combustion chamber and a nozzle. The monolithic preform has a tubular shape and includes a first end, a second end opposite the first end, an inner surface, and an outer surface. The monolithic preform defines a plurality of fluid inlets disposed at the first end, a plurality of fluid outlets disposed at the first end, and a plurality of fluid passages between the inner surface and the outer surface. The plurality of fluid passages are in fluid communication with the plurality of fluid inlets and the plurality of fluid outlets. The plurality of fluid passages comprise a first pathway portion, a second pathway portion, and a curved portion between the first pathway portion and the second pathway portion.

Composite tubular structure

A system for creating surrogate models is provided. The system includes a user computing device including a user interface, a database, and a processor. The processor is configured to receive, from the user computing device, a workflow request, determine at least one application in the database required to complete the workflow request, retrieve, from the database, the at least one application and meta-data associated with the at least one application, and determine that a user has proper tenancies to use the at least one application. The processor is further configured to execute, using the at least one application on an external computing device, a workflow associated with the workflow request based at least in part on the meta-data, generate, based on execution of the workflow request, new meta-data associated with the at least one application, and transmit the new meta-data to the database.

Systems and methods for creating surrogate models

According to some embodiments, a surrogate model creation computer system includes a user interface to interact with a subject matter expert to create a scripted physics-based model workflow associated with an industrial asset. The surrogate model creation computer system further includes a surrogate model creation engine to automatically execute the scripted physics-based model workflow, in connection with a physics-based model of the industrial asset, to generate at least one response surface of the physics-based model workflow. The surrogate model creation engine may then use the response surface and a machine learning process to automatically create a surrogate model of the industrial asset. It may then be arranged to output the surrogate model for use by a substantially real-time analytics package associated with the industrial asset. According to some embodiments, scripting for a physics-based model workflow may also be automatically created.

Autonomous surrogate model creation platform

A hot gas path component assembly includes a first component portion that includes a first set of interlocking features and a second component portion that includes a second set of interlocking features mechanically coupled to the first set of interlocking features. A fill material is disposed at an interface between at least one surface of the first set of interlocking features and at least one surface of the second set of interlocking features. The fill material is disposed during a joining process. The second component portion is joined to the first component portion via both the fill material and the first and second sets of interlocking features.

Component with mechanical locking features incorporating adaptive cooling and method of making

A component includes an outer wall that includes an exterior surface, and at least one plenum defined interiorly to the outer wall and configured to receive a cooling fluid therein. The component also includes a coating system disposed on the exterior surface. The coating system has a thickness. The component further includes a plurality of adaptive cooling openings defined in the outer wall. Each of the adaptive cooling openings extends from a first end inflow communication with the at least one plenum, outward through the exterior surface and to a second end covered underneath at least a portion of the thickness of the coating system.

Coated components having adaptive cooling openings and methods of making the same

There are provided a system and a method of use thereof for executing a manufacturing process. For example, a method can include executing, by a system configured to drive the manufacturing process, a set of manufacturing functions based on a digital model of a first part. The method can include fetching, by the system, from an in-field scoring system, performance data relating to a second part. The method can further include constructing the digital model based on the performance data relating to the second part. The method can further include generating, based on the digital model, a forecast representative of a performance of the first part and generating the set of manufacturing functions based on the digital model and the forecast. The method further includes manufacturing the first part according to the set of manufacturing functions.

System and method for optimizing a manufacturing process based on an inspection of a component

A mold assembly for use in forming a component having an outer wall of a predetermined thickness includes a mold and a jacketed core. The jacketed core includes a jacket that includes a first jacket outer wall coupled against an interior wall of the mold, a second jacket outer wall positioned interiorly from the first jacket outer wall, and at least one jacketed cavity defined therebetween. The at least one jacketed cavity is configured to receive a molten component material therein. The jacketed core also includes a core positioned interiorly from the second jacket outer wall. The core includes a perimeter coupled against the second jacket outer wall. The jacket separates the perimeter from the interior wall by the predetermined thickness, such that the outer wall is formable between the perimeter and the interior wall.

Method and assembly for forming components using a jacketed core

There is provided a method for optimizing a manufacturing process of a new part. The method includes executing, by a system configured to drive the manufacturing process, a set of manufacturing functions. Executing these functions include receiving data associated with one or more field parts similar to the new part, and generating, based on the data, a forecast representative of a longevity of the one or more parts. The method further includes generating a digital thread forming a surrogate model for the new part, based on the forecast. Further, the method includes creating the set of manufacturing functions based on the surrogate model and manufacturing the new part according to the set of manufacturing functions.

Method and system for optimizing a manufacturing process based on a surrogate model of a part

There are provided methods and systems for optimizing a manufacturing process. For example, there is provided a method for generating a model for driving a decision of a manufacturing process. The method includes simultaneously receiving data from a plurality of sources and executing a machine learning-based procedure on the data. The method further includes updating a physics-based model corresponding to the model in real time based on a result of the machine learning-based procedure.

As-designed, as-manufactured, as-tested, as-operated and as-serviced coupled digital twin ecosystem

A component is formed from a component material introduced into a mold assembly. The mold assembly includes a mold that has a cavity defined therein by an interior wall. The cavity receives the component material in a molten state to form the component. A multiple component core assembly is positioned with respect to the mold and has a first core component attached to a second core component at a core split line. A core connection component is attached to each of the first and second core components at the core split line, such that the first core component is held adjacent the second core component at the core split line. The core connection component is formed from a connection component material that is at least partially absorbable by the component material.

Method and assembly for a multiple component core assembly

A turbomachinery component for a turbomachine includes feed manifold, a return manifold and a sidewall. The feed manifold is configured to receive a coolant stream therein and includes a plurality of feed plenums. The return manifold includes a plurality of return plenums. The sidewall defines a plurality of feed channels and a plurality of return channels therein. The sidewall further includes an inner surface and an outer surface opposite the inner surface. Each feed channel is in fluid communication with at least one of the feed plenums. Each return channel is in fluid communication with at least one of the return plenums. The sidewall further at least partially defines a plurality of microchannels. Each microchannel is in fluid communication with one of the feed channels and one of the return channels.

System for removing heat from turbomachinery components

A component configured for impingement cooling includes an inner wall defining a plurality of apertures extending therethrough. Each aperture of the plurality of apertures is configured to emit a cooling fluid therethrough. The component also includes an outer wall that includes an exterior surface, an opposite interior surface, and a thickness defined therebetween. The component further includes a plurality of recesses defined in the outer wall. Each recess of the plurality of recesses extends from a recess first end to an opposite recess second end. The second recess end is defined at the interior surface, and the recess first end is positioned within the outer wall at a depth less than the thickness. Each recess is aligned with a corresponding aperture of the plurality of apertures to receive the cooling fluid therefrom.

Components having outer wall recesses for impingement cooling

Various embodiments include a heat transfer device, while other embodiments include a turbine component. In some cases, the device can include: a body portion having an inner surface and an outer surface, the inner surface defining an inner region; at least one aperture in the body portion, the at least one aperture positioned to direct fluid from the inner region through the body portion; and at least one fluid receiving feature formed in the outer surface of the body portion, the at least one fluid receiving feature positioned to receive post-impingement fluid from the at least one aperture, wherein the at least one aperture does not define any portion of the at least one fluid receiving feature, and the at least one fluid receiving feature segregates relatively higher velocity post-impingement fluid from relatively lower velocity fluid within an impingement cross-flow region.

Heat transfer device and related turbine airfoil

A support form defining a longitudinal axis is provided. The support form includes a first section, a second substantially solid section, and at least one flow feature form. The first section includes a plurality of unit cells of a first material joined together to form a lattice. The second section includes a second material and surrounds the first section. The at least one flow feature form is defined in the second section and is configured to generate a flow feature on a heat exchanger tube formed by plating the support form.

Systems and methods for heat exchanger tubes having internal flow features

A component includes an outer wall that includes an exterior surface and an opposite interior surface. The component also includes at least one internal void defined adjacent the interior surface and configured to receive a cooling fluid therein. The component further includes a plurality of openings defined in and extending through the outer wall such that the outer wall defines an edge of each of the plurality of openings. Additionally, the component includes a plurality of separable plugs each positioned in a corresponding opening. Each of the separable plugs is sized to fit within the corresponding opening such that a clearance gap is defined between the separable plug and the edge of the corresponding opening. Each of the separable plugs is coupled to the outer wall by at least one tab that extends across the clearance gap from the each separable plug to the edge of the corresponding opening.

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James Albert Tallman