摘要 |
A shrouded aerofoil assembly such as a turbine rotor for a gas turbine engine has a multiplicity of blades with tip shrouds circumferentially distributed around a rotor disk. Inevitably, in use, the assembly vibrates and must be designed so the potentially most dangerous vibratory modes occur outside the engine speed range. The proposed arrangement has a plurality of neighbouring blades sharing a common shroud segment formed by joining segment parts by welds 12. Adjacent shroud segments are interlocked by Z-notch abutments. Blade assemblies have sufficient pre-twist load to maintain frictional contact in the interlocks over the speed range to maintain damping constraints. <IMAGE>
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