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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 08, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 29, 2006
William Carl Ruehr, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Michael Harvey Schneider, Loveland, OH (US);
Sunil Kumar Sinha, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Jay L. Cornell, Hamilton, OH (US);
William Carl Ruehr, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Michael Harvey Schneider, Loveland, OH (US);
Sunil Kumar Sinha, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Jay L. Cornell, Hamilton, OH (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for assembling a rotor assembly and a rotor assembly are provided. The method comprises providing a rotor blade including a first sidewall, a second sidewall, where the first and second sidewalls are connected at a leading edge and a trailing edge and extend in span from a root portion to a tip portion, removing blade material from the tip portion to form a tip portion rake angle that enables the tip portion to extend obliquely between the first and second sidewalls, and coupling the rotor blade to a shaft such that during tip rubs the tip portion rake angle facilitates reducing radial loading induced to the blade during tip rubs.