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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 30, 2007
Filed:
Jan. 10, 2005
Thomas Richard Henning, Cincinnati, OH (US);
John D. Mickol, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Daniel E. Mollmann, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Michael H. Schneider, Loveland, OH (US);
Andrew Breeze-stringfellow, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Timothy J. Horejs, West Chester, OH (US);
Thomas Richard Henning, Cincinnati, OH (US);
John D. Mickol, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Daniel E. Mollmann, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Michael H. Schneider, Loveland, OH (US);
Andrew Breeze-Stringfellow, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Timothy J. Horejs, West Chester, OH (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A method, rotor assembly, and apparatus for ordering blades in a rotatable machine is provided. The rotor assembly includes a disk including a plurality of circumferentially-spaced blade root slots defined therein, and a plurality of blades, each blade including a root, a tip, and an airfoil therebetween, each blade positioned within a pre-determined slot based on a blade map, the blade map generated by a computer system configured to receive a geometric parameter measurement of each blade in a row of blades, determine a shape factor for the row of blades using the geometric parameter measurement of each blade, and determine a sequence map of each blade using the shape factor for the row of blades.