Safran Aircraft Engines

Snecma

Lise Lacroix

Thierry Georges Paul Papin

Jean-Pierre Cauchois

Romain Plante

Olivier Patrigeon

Virginie Guilbert

Pascal Burek

Dominique Raulin

Kaelig Merwen Orieux

Xavier Durand

A method of manufacturing a composite material vane with a covering element, the vane including a platform and a profile extending perpendicularly to the platform, comprises the following steps: providing a covering element and a preform of the vane, the preform comprising a platform portion and a profile portion extending substantially perpendicularly to the platform portion; positioning the covering element against the platform portion so as to obtain an assembly; placing said assembly in a mold; injecting a first resin into the mold so that said resin impregnates and covers the preform and covers at least a portion of the covering element; and carrying out a heat treatment so as to harden the first resin.

Composite material vane with integrated aerodynamic covering element and manufacturing method thereof

A turbomachine fan frame including a central hub, a plurality of radial vanes installed on the hub and distributed around the hub, each vane including an inner radial end root at which the vane is fixed to the hub, a plurality of flow stream reconstitution platforms, each platform being installed between the roots of two adjacent vanes and radially at a distance from the hub, wherein each platform is fixed to the hub by at least one support element associated with the platform, the support element located between the associated platform and the hub and located between the roots of two adjacent vanes.

Turbomachine fan frame comprising improved attachment means

A compacting and injection mold for a fiber preform is for use in fabricating a turbine engine guide vane out of composite material. The mold includes a shell forming a trough that is to receive the fiber preform and that is closed in leaktight manner by bottom and top covers, compacting blocks arranged inside the trough each having a surface pressing normally against a surface of the fiber preform that is to be compacted, and closure blocks arranged inside the trough. Each closure block has a surface pressing normally against a surface of a compacting block and does not have a surface in contact with the fiber preform.

Compacting and injection mold for a fiber preform for fabricating a turbine engine guide vane made of composite material

A plate closes the main part of a vane in two parts. An internal cavity is closed by the plate. Around a bearing surface of the plate, a groove receives an elastic seal, and the outer edge of the plate extends over the groove to compress the seal and to establish excellent leak proofing. The position of the plate may be guaranteed by centring pins penetrating into holes adjacent to the seal and which it fills when the pins have been removed, which completes the closing of the cavity. The plate has application in particular to stationary gas guide vanes in turbine engines.

Turbine engine vane plate seal

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Lise Lacroix