Abstract: A drum compressor rotor (10) for use in a gas turbine engine comprises a plurality of high strength, low density filaments (18a-d) which are covered with a high temperature adhesive resin and tightly wound around the hub (12) between rows of fan blades (14). The filaments allow an increase in the maximum compressor rotor operating speed thereby increasing the potential performance of the turbine engine. The filament windings (18a-d) are significantly lighter and less expensive than conventional welded metal support disks (106a-c).

Abstract: A nozzle assembly for a turbine engine comprises an annular ceramic-matrix composite hub having integral radially outwardly extending vanes, and a pair of annular ceramic-matrix composite shrouds which interlockingly engage and secure the radially outermost ends of the vanes, whereby the hub is peripherally supported. The quasi-isotropic laminate structure of both hub and shroud materials generates like physical properties radially and circumferentially in the hub, and axially and circumferentially in the shrouds. Such quasi-isotropism in turn provides cooperative thermal expansion of the hub and shrouds during engine operation, whereby the radial, axial, and circumferential abutting surfaces of the ends of the vanes increasingly interlockingly engage with the correspondingly opposed surfaces of the shrouds to effect increased structural integrity of the nozzle assembly.