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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 24, 2008
Filed:
Nov. 16, 2005
Ming Xie, Beavercreek, OH (US);
Stephen C. Mitchell, West Chester, OH (US);
Donald G. Lachapelle, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Michael Scott Braley, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Gary D. Roberts, Wadsworth, OH (US);
Dale Hopkins, Medina, OH (US);
Ming Xie, Beavercreek, OH (US);
Stephen C. Mitchell, West Chester, OH (US);
Donald G. LaChapelle, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Michael Scott Braley, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Gary D. Roberts, Wadsworth, OH (US);
Dale Hopkins, Medina, OH (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A composite fan casing for a gas turbine engine includes, in an exemplary embodiment, a core having a plurality of core layers of reinforcing fiber bonded together with a thermosetting polymeric resin. Each core layer includes a plurality of braided reinforcing fiber tows. The braids of reinforcing fiber tows are aligned in a circumferential direction with each fiber tow including a plurality of reinforcing fibers. The core also includes at least one additional fiber tow braided into at least one predetermined axial location to form at least one concentrated stiffening ring.