General Electric Company

Walmart Apollo, LLC

Nitesh Jain

Nicholas Joseph Kray

Abhijeet Jayshingrao Yadav

Kishore Budumuru

Manoj Kumar Jain

Nagamohan Govinahalli Prabhakar

Apostolos Pavlos Karafillis

Daniel Edward Mollmann

Thomas Chadwick Waldman

Sreekanth Kumar Dorbala

Mojibur Rahman

Ravindra Shankar Ganiger

Scott Roger Finn

Balaraju Suresh

Narendra Digamber Joshi

David William Crall

Praveen Sharma

Abhijit Sinha Roy

Gary W Bryant

Wayne Allen Spence

Paul Gerard Marsland

Prashant Sharma

Thomas Ory Moniz

Jan Christopher Schilling

Andrew Breeze-Stringfellow

Bhaskar Nanda Mondal

David Raju Yamarthi

Vidyashankar Ramasastry Buravalla

Michael Edward Eriksen

Frank Worthoff

Gary Willard Bryant, Jr

Arun Kumar

Veeraraju Vanapalli

Amit Kumar Yadav

Viswanadha Gupta Sakala

Charles Stanley Orkiszewski

Joel Francis Kirk

Vishnu Vardhan Venkata Tatiparthi

Deepak Ghiya

Edward Atwood Rainous

Benjamin James Roby

Theodore Anderson

Samar Jyoti Kalita

Michael Riehle

Steven Andrew Strang

Vasanth Kumar Balaramudu

Subramanya Shankar

Nuthi Srinivas

Amit Kumar Pundir

Nagashiresha Gontla

Abhishek Kumar Maurya

Veeraraju V

Ricardo Hernandez Pandeli

Dev Kumar

Baskaran Bhuvaraghan

Vikulp Sharma

K Phani SriKrishna Chinnapragada

Vijesh Shetty Anangoor

Srinivasarao Surapu

Saurabh Sanjay Rasal

A composite airfoil assembly has a composite airfoil, a spar, and a wrap. The composite airfoil has an outer wall and a composite skin. The outer wall extends between a root and a tip. The outer wall defines an interior. The composite skin at least partially defines the outer wall. The spar having a spar centerline axis, a stem, a base, and a transition interconnecting the base and the stem.

Composite airfoil assembly having a composite airfoil and spar

Hybrid composite components, such as gas turbine engine containment assemblies, a hybrid composite component having an annular composite shell and an annular metallic shell joined with the composite shell. A containment assembly including a containment case extending along an axial direction about a longitudinal centerline of the gas turbine engine. The containment case has an inner surface and an outer surface spaced apart along a radial direction and includes a first composite shell joined with a metallic shell. The metallic shell defining a first portion of the inner surface and the first composite shell defining a second portion of the inner surface.

Hybrid composite components

A composite airfoil assembly for a turbine engine. The composite airfoil assembly includes a woven core having a core exterior. The woven core includes a first region, a second region, and a transition region. A skin is applied to at least a portion of the woven core at the core exterior.

Composite airfoil assembly for a turbine engine

A fan assembly for an engine has a fan blade, a disk having a disk segment, a trunnion mechanism having a trunnion extending at least partially through the disk segment, and first and second attachment systems. The trunnion has a platform and a shaft. The fan blade is adjacent to the platform of the trunnion. The trunnion is attached to the disk segment using the first attachment system along a preload path. The first and second attachment systems further include first and second retention features, respectively, separate from the preload path. During normal operation of the fan assembly, the first attachment system retains the trunnion within the disk along a first load path. Upon a failure in the trunnion, the first and second retention features together retain the trunnion within the disk segment along a second load path, the first load path being different than the second load path.

Fan assembly for an engine having redundant trunnion retention

An airfoil structure including an airfoil and a spring and damper system. The airfoil including a longitudinal axis. The spring and damper system is connected to the airfoil to rotate the airfoil about the longitudinal axis to change airfoil pitch in response to a load applied to the airfoil.

Rotating airfoil with a spring damper system

Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed for passive fan blade tip clearance control. A fan blade for a gas turbine engine, the fan blade comprising a fan blade body including a tip region at a blade tip of the fan blade body and a blade tip insert disposed within the tip region of the fan blade body, the blade tip insert is formed from a material that passively adjusts a shape of the blade tip insert to maintain a blade tip clearance between the blade tip and an engine casing or nacelle by at least one of expanding or contracting based on temperature.

Methods and apparatus for passive fan blade tip clearance control

Composite airfoils and methods for forming composite airfoils are provided. For example, a composite airfoil of a gas turbine engine comprises opposite pressure and suction sides extending radially along a span from a root to a tip, which define opposite radial extremities of the airfoil. The composite airfoil further comprises a body section and a tip section, which includes the tip, that each extend radially along the span. The composite airfoil is formed from a composite material comprising fibers disposed in a matrix material. The tip section has a tip fiber volume, and the body section has a body fiber volume that is greater than the tip fiber volume. Another composite airfoil comprises a tip cap applied over the tip that tapers from a first end to a second end such that each of the pressure and suction side walls of the tip cap narrows from a first thickness to a second thickness.

Composite airfoils with frangible tips

Light weight fan casing configurations for energy absorption are disclosed herein. An apparatus includes a first set of metal bands positioned within a containment casing of a turbofan engine, and a second set of metal bands traversing the first set of metal bands, the first set of metal bands and the second set of metal bands to surround at least a portion of the turbofan engine.

Light weight fan casing configurations for energy absorption

Examples disclosed herein include a fan blade of a gas turbine engine. The disclosed fan blade includes a main body having a leading edge and a trailing edge. The fan blade includes a leading edge guard covering the leading edge and a leading section of the main body adjacent to the leading edge. The leading edge guard includes a plurality of leading edge guard segments consecutively arranged in a spanwise direction along the leading edge of the fan blade. Each of the plurality of leading edge guard segments are oriented at an angle relative to a root of the fan blade. Each of the plurality of leading edge guard segments includes a nose portion coupled to the leading edge and a wing portion coupled to opposing sides of the leading section of the main body.

Segmented leading edge guards

A component and blade assembly for a turbine engine, the component having a wall bounding an interior and defining an exterior surface extending radially between a leading edge and a trailing edge to define a chordwise direction, and between a hub and a tip to define a spanwise direction. A metallic spar extending from the hub in the spanwise direction into the interior, the metallic spar defining a socket. A composite spar extending in the spanwise direction between a spar root and a spar tip, the spar root received in the socket. The component further having a stiffener.

Component with spar assembly for a turbine engine

An airfoil assembly extends along a radial direction between a root and a tip, the airfoil assembly comprising: a first blade segment positioned proximate the root of the airfoil assembly; a second blade segment positioned adjacent the first blade segment along the radial direction; and a tensioning assembly comprising a plurality of tensioning strings that extend between and mechanically couple the first blade segment and the second blade segment.

Airfoil assembly with tensioned blade segments

An airfoil for a turbine engine having a spar assembly. The spar assembly including a composite spar, a metallic hub, and a composite body. The metallic hub can receive a portion of the composite spar at an interior surface to define an overlapping region. The composite body is located at the overlapping region.

Airfoil having a spar assembly for a turbine engine

A gas turbine engine including: a turbomachine having a compressor section, a combustion section, and a turbine section arranged in serial flow order; a fan defining a fan axis and comprising a plurality of fan blades rotatable about the fan axis; and a pitch change mechanism operable with the plurality of fan blades, the pitch change mechanism including a plurality of linkages, the plurality of linkages including a first linkage coupled to a first fan blade of the plurality of fan blades and a second linkage coupled to a second fan blade of the plurality of fan blades; and a non-uniform blade actuator system operable with one or more of the plurality of linkages to control a pitch of the first fan blade relative to a pitch of the second fan blade.

Pitch change mechanism for a fan of a gas turbine engine

Part-span shrouds for pitch controlled aircrafts are disclosed herein. An example apparatus includes a first portion extending from a first airfoil, the first portion including a first surface, the first surface being convex, a second portion extending from a second airfoil towards the first airfoil, the second portion including a second surface the first airfoil circumferentially adjacent to the second airfoil, the second surface being concave, and an interface formed by the first surface and the second surface, the interface reacting circumferential loads between the first airfoil and the second airfoil.

Part-span shrouds for pitch controlled aircrafts

In one exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure an airfoil is provided. The airfoil defines a spanwise direction, a root end, and a tip end. The airfoil includes: a body defining a pressure side and a suction side and extending along the spanwise direction between the root end and the tip end, the body formed of a composite material; and a spar enclosed in the body of the airfoil extending along the spanwise direction, the spar comprising a plurality of spar segments arranged in an overlapping configuration along the spanwise direction.

Airfoil for a gas turbine engine

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Nitesh Jain