Method for reducing cooled turbine element stress and element made thereby

摘要

A cooled turbine element including an airfoil and a flowpath boundary member extending laterally from either an inboard end or an outboard end of the airfoil. The member has a flowpath face and an outside face which is cooler than said flowpath face creating a tendency for the member to deflect in a direction away from the flowpath face and causing a thermally induced tensile radial stress in a region of the trailing edge of the airfoil. The element has an interior cooling passage and at least one cooling hole extending from the interior cooling passage to an opening located in an area upstream from the stressed region of the trailing edge to cool the area so the airfoil thermally deflects to a shape corresponding to that of the boundary member thereby lowering the thermally induced tensile radial stress in the airfoil at the trailing edge thereof.