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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2020
Filed:
Apr. 13, 2017
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Thomas Chadwick Waldman, Boston, MA (US);
James Edward Thompson, Liberty Township, OH (US);
Douglas Ward, West Chester, OH (US);
Nicholas Joseph Kray, Mason, OH (US);
Scott Roger Finn, Montgomery, OH (US);
Apostolos Pavlos Karafillis, Winchester, MA (US);
General Electric Company, Schectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A turbine engine that includes an engine casing including a shell and an angel wing member. The angel wing member includes a base defined at the shell and a tip positioned distal from the base. The turbine engine also includes a backsheet extending over the angel wing member such that an angled region is defined in the backsheet at an interface with the tip. The tip has a predetermined contour capable of mitigating stress concentrations in the angled region induced from said tip.