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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 10, 2017
Filed:
Aug. 12, 2015
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Jacob Andrew Salm, Mauldin, SC (US);
James Ryan Connor, Greenville, SC (US);
Jeffrey David Erno, Simpsonville, SC (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A system and method for virtually inspecting contact gaps of a blade stage of a turbomachine is disclosed. The system may include a digitizing device for obtaining a three-dimensional model of a shroud of each blade of the blade stage. A computer system may include at least one module configured to perform the following steps: extracting a geometric location data of a hard place plane of each shroud from the three-dimensional model; generating a three-dimensional virtual rendering of the shrouds of the blade stage based on the geometric location data and the known dimensions of the blade stage, the three-dimensional virtual rendering including a rendering of contact gaps between adjacent shrouds; and inspecting the blade stage using the three-dimensional virtual rendering.