General Electric Company

Yagnesh Dalpatbhai Hathiwala

Sabarinath Devarajan

Ronald Stuart Denmark

Srinivas Ravi

David Christopher Bayer

Ashok Kumar Haveri Murigeppa

Howard Gerhard Halverson

Somayajula Kumar

Wilton Andrew Green, Jr

Paul Anthony Santos

A process of repairing a component, a repair tool for a component, and a component are disclosed. The process includes removing material from a region of the component. The removing forms a through-cut in the component, forms a partial-frustoconical geometry in the component, forms a substantially partial-frustoconical geometry in the component, forms a partial-spherical geometry in the component, forms a substantially partial-spherical geometry in the component, forms a partial-elliptical geometry in the component, forms a substantially partial-elliptical geometry in the component, forms a partial-cylindrical geometry in the component, forms a substantially partial-cylindrical geometry in the component, is in a direction substantially perpendicular to a surface of the component, is in a direction substantially inclined with respect to the surface of the component, or a combination thereof. The repair tool includes a securing mechanism and a cutting portion for removing a region. The component includes a region formed by removing material.

Process of repairing a component, a repair tool for a component, and a component

A method of repairing a turbomachine rotor wheel including a first outer circumferential edge extending to a second outer circumferential edge through a circumferential surface, a dovetail interface extending across the outer circumferential surface between the first and second outer circumferential edges, and a bucket mounted to the dovetail interface includes identifying a defect on one of the first and second outer circumferential edges of the rotor wheel adjacent the bucket, securing the bucket in the dovetail interface to substantially constrain axial movement, and removing a portion of the one of the first and second outer circumferential edges to remove the defect.

Method and apparatus to repair a turbomachine rotor wheel

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Bengaluru, India

Yagnesh Dalpatbhai Hathiwala