Turbine abradable layer with progressive wear zone multi depth grooves

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8939705
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14188813

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Turbine and compressor casing abradable component embodiments for turbine engines, with composite grooves and vertically projecting rows of first ridges in planform patterns, to reduce, redirect and/or block blade tip airflow leakage downstream into the grooves rather than from turbine blade airfoil high to low pressure sides. The abradable component embodiments have a multi-depth grooves formed in the abradable substrate surface between pairs of elongated continuous tip surface first ridges. These ridge and multi-depth groove embodiments have first lower and second upper wear zones. The lower zone, in the deeper grooves, optimizes engine airflow characteristics, while the upper zone, in the shallower grooves, is optimized to minimize blade tip gap and wear by being more easily abradable than the lower zone.

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  • SIEMENS ENERGY, INC.

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Lee, Ching-Pang Cincinnati, US 393 10438
Tham, Kok-Mun Oviedo, US 39 397

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