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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 16, 1996
Filed:
Aug. 02, 1994
Robert P Czachor, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Michael L Barron, Loveland, OH (US);
General Electric Company, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Abstract
A turbine frame includes outer and inner coaxially disposed annular casings having a plurality of circumferentially spaced apart struts extending therebetween is provided with at least one and preferably two axially spaced apart polygonal stiffening rails, a forward rail and an aft rail, circumferentially disposed on the outer annular casing. The rails have at least a first section with a constant cross-sectional area normal to the casing in a circumferential direction around the outer casing, a linear centroid distribution of the cross-sections in the circumferential direction, and the centroids lie in a first plane P1 which is parallel to and spaced apart from a second plane P2 that is tangential to the outer casing mid-way between adjacent struts.