Gm Global Technolgoy Operations, Inc.

Leonard C Lindgren

Bruce A Ewing

A hybrid dual property radial turbine rotor for a gas turbine engine includes an airfoil shell having a plurality of radially outwardly directed airfoils thereon joined to a continuously circumferentially formed inner periphery including a constant diameter axially extending portion and a radially outwardly flared skirt portion thereon into which is fitted a preformed hub plug of dense stress resistant material having an axially extending nose portion thereon with a controlled constant circumference surface throughout its length of a precision dimensioned diameter and further including a conical end thereon with a surface thereon of a slope that is congruent with the slope of the flared skirt portion of the cast metal rotor shell and wherein the slope of the flared skirt portion is configured to optimize the location of the high strength hub material and to achieve optimum blade and hub stress levels.

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Indianapolis, IN, United States of America

Leonard C Lindgren