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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 20, 2018
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2013
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Patrick Daniel Noble, Greenville, SC (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A rotor assembly includes a rotor disc including a plurality of circumferentially-spaced diskposts and a plurality of dovetail slots. Each dovetail slot is defined between a pair of circumferentially-adjacent diskposts. A plurality of rotor blades are coupled to the rotor disc. Each rotor blade includes a dovetail portion that is configured to slidably engage a respective dovetail slot. A plurality of platform sections are coupled to the rotor disc such that each platform section is adjacent a respective rotor blade. Each platform section includes a diskpost slot that is configured to receive one of the plurality of diskposts such that each dovetail slot receives a respective dovetail portion and at least a portion of at least one of the platform sections adjacent the rotor blade.