Abstract: A method for inspecting a rotor blade unit of a gas turbine, the rotor blade unit including a radially outwardly disposed outer shroud connected by a material-to-material bond to a radially inwardly adjoining rotor blade, the rotor blade having an airfoil including a pressure side and a suction side, as well as an axial leading edge and an axial trailing edge which interconnect the pressure side and the suction side. The method includes: providing a rotor blade unit; processing the outer shroud at its axially forward or axially aft side, the side selected to be processed being the one that has a greater distance from the adjacent axial leading edge or axial trailing edge of the rotor blade, a contact surface being formed by processing the selected side; providing the rotor blade unit having the contact surface in a measuring device, in particular a measuring device for determining the torsion or twist of the rotor blade unit about an axis.

Abstract: A rotor blade for a gas turbine, in particular an aircraft gas turbine, having a blade root element and a stream deflection portion adjoining the blade root element (12) in the longitudinal direction of the blade (RR); respective centroids (24) of blade cross-sectional areas of the stream deflection portion residing on a common stacking axis (26). It is provided that, starting from a first centroid (24) of a first blade cross-sectional area adjoining the blade root element (12), the stacking axis (26) extend within a cone (28) whose apex resides within the first centroid (24), and whose cone height (KH) extends orthogonally to the plane of the blade cross-sectional area; the angle (?) of the cone (28) being greater than 0° and smaller than or equal to 4°; preferably greater than or equal to 0.5° and smaller than or equal to 2°.

Abstract: The invention relates to a blade or vane ring for a gas turbine having a plurality of blades or vanes that are arranged next to one another in the peripheral direction (UR), wherein blades or vanes have a flow segment extending essentially in the radial direction, these blades or vanes having a convex suction side, a concave pressure side, a leading edge and a trailing edge, wherein the suction side and the pressure side are joined together by the leading edge and the trailing edge, wherein the blades or vanes transition into an annular segment of the blade or vane ring radially inside and/or radially outside, wherein annular segment connects a first blade or vane (12) and a second blade or vane, which are adjacent to one another, between the suction side of the first blade or vane and the pressure side of the second blade or vane.

Abstract: A rotor for a turbomachine, in particular for a jet engine, having a blade ring which includes multiple differently designed rotor blades (10a, 10b) having blade platforms (14a, 14b) engaged flush with one another, the blade ring including at least two groups of differently designed rotor blades (10a, 10b), each group of rotor blades (10a, 10b) being assigned blade platforms (14a, 14b), each of which is engageable flush with a matching blade platform (14a, 14b) of at least one other group of rotor blades (10a, 10b) and not with a blade platform (14a, 14b) of the same group of rotor blades (10a, 10b). A method for manufacturing a blade ring of a rotor for a turbomachine is also provided.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a rotating blade for a turbomachine, in particular a compressor stage or a turbine stage of a gas turbine, particularly of an aircraft engine, having a blade element (10) for deflecting the flow, with a pressure side and a suction side (11), these sides being joined by a leading edge and a trailing edge (12, 13), wherein a stacking axis (S) of the blade element (10), in the radial direction (R) over a radius r from a root of a blade element at r=0 to a tip of a blade element at r=H, has a course x(r) in a first downstream direction (X) perpendicular to the radial direction (R) and parallel to a principal axis of the turbomachine and has a course y(r) in a second direction (Y) perpendicular to the radial direction (R) and to the first direction (X).

Abstract: A method for machining a workpiece is provided. An electrode is moved linearly in the direction of the workpiece to cause material to be removed from the workpiece, at least one end of a surface of the workpiece running obliquely to a guide edge of the electrode machining this surface. The electrode is moved at least partially with the electrode surface parallel to the surface, so that during the approach to the workpiece, areas of the workpiece having an irregular edge machined at a different intensity are formed, the difference in intensity of machining on the edge of the surface to be machined being compensated in that the surface to be machined is provided with a height profile adapted to the shape of the end of the surface to be machined. A blade ring segment and blade ring is also disclosed.

Abstract: A damper (2) for damping a blade movement of a turbomachine (1), and to a method for producing the damper (2). The damper (2) has at least one side surface (21, 21?) which can be brought into frictional contact with a friction surface of the turbomachine (1) in order to damp a blade movement. The side surfaces (21, 21?) are asymmetrically convex in shape.

Abstract: A method for machining a workpiece. An electrode is moved linearly in the direction of the workpiece to cause material to be removed from the workpiece, at least one end of a surface of the workpiece running obliquely to a guide edge of the electrode machining this surface. The electrode is moved at least partially with the electrode surface parallel to the surface, so that during the approach to the workpiece, areas of the workpiece having an irregular edge machined at a different intensity are formed, the difference in intensity of machining on the edge of the surface to be machined being compensated in that the surface to be machined is provided with a height profile adapted to the shape of the end of the surface to be machined. A blade ring segment and blade ring is also disclosed.

Abstract: A securing device (20) for axially securing a blade root (12) of a blade in a groove (11) of a turbine engine. The outer contour (24) of the securing device (20) that faces a groove wall, in particular a groove base (33), is curved at least in some regions, the outer contour (24) having three different radii (R1, R2, R3) in some regions.

Abstract: An extruded profile for manufacturing a blade of an outlet guide vane of a turbine engine. A cross-sectional area has an axial length LAX and a thickness D/LAX relative to the axial length LAX. A cross-sectional area has an at least nearly axisymmetric leading edge region, a first transition region having a varying relative thickness D/LAX. A first constant region has a relative thickness D/LAX at least substantially constant and, relative to a leading edge of the extruded profile, begins at the closest at 10% LAX and ends at the furthest at 50% LAX. A second transition region has a varying relative thickness D/LAX and, relative to the leading edge of the extruded profile, begins at the closest at 30% LAX and ends at the furthest at 90% LAX. A second constant region has a relative thickness D/LAX at least substantially constant and an axial length X of 40% LAX at most; and an at least nearly axisymmetric trailing edge region.

Abstract: A blade for a turbomachine, in particular a jet engine, including a shroud, having two opposite lateral edges, for delimiting a main flow channel and including a blade which extends away from the shroud, a rounded transition area being provided which encompasses the blade on its root side and is guided beyond the one lateral edge, a section of the transition area protruding beyond the one lateral edge being severed and situated in the area of the other lateral edge as an elevation offset in the transverse direction, a blade arrangement having at least two of such blades as well as a turbomachine having a plurality of such blades.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a turbomachine blade (100; 200) with a base element, which has a blade part (1) for flow diversion and a blade root (2), a first guide (110; 210), fixed on the base element, in which a first element (111; 211) is movably guided, and a second guide (120; 220), fixed on the base element, in which a second element (121; 221) is movably guided, wherein a dynamic of the first element in the first guide and a dynamic of the second element in the second guide are designed differently, and the first guide (110; 210) is arranged in a half, nearer to the base root, of a radial height (H) of the base element, and the second guide is arranged in a half, more remote from the blade root, of the radial height of the base element.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a blade cascade for a gas turbine, which has a first group with at least two, in particular at least three, first blade arrangements of the same type to one another (A1, . . . A5; U1, U2), on which first element arrangements that are identical to one another and have at least one first element (a) are movably mounted; and a second group with at least two, in particular at least three, second blade arrangements (B1, B2; V1, . . . V4), which are of the same type to one another and are of different type from the first blade arrangements, on which second element arrangements, which are identical to one another and have at least one second element (b) are movably mounted, wherein first and second element arrangements are different from each other.

Abstract: The invention relates to a blade cascade for a turbomachine, having a number of blades (11, . . . 14; 21, . . . 25; 31, . . . 37) which include a monocrystalline material, each blade having a crystal orientation value (|?|), which is dependent on a crystal of first blades (11, . . . 14) being less than a first limiting value and the crystal orientation values of second blades (21, . . . 25; 31, . . .

Abstract: A blade row for a turbomachine is disclosed. The blade row has an inner lateral wall and an outer lateral wall for bordering a hot gas channel in the turbomachine through which hot gas passes. At least one of the lateral walls has a rounded lateral wall front edge, which is provided with a circumferentially asymmetrical edge contouring that is elliptical or is comprised of one or more segments of a circle.

Abstract: A securing plate assortment including multiple different securing plates, the securing plates having different geometric codings. A turbine and method is also disclosed.

Abstract: A damper (2) for damping a blade movement of a turbomachine (1), and to a method for producing the damper (2). The damper (2) has at least one side surface (21, 21?) which can be brought into frictional contact with a friction surface of the turbomachine (1) in order to damp a blade movement. The side surfaces (21, 21?) are asymmetrically convex in shape.

Abstract: A blade for a turbomachine, in particular a jet engine, including a shroud, having two opposite lateral edges, for delimiting a main flow channel and including a blade which extends away from the shroud, a rounded transition area being provided which encompasses the blade on its root side and is guided beyond the one lateral edge, a section of the transition area protruding beyond the one lateral edge being severed and situated in the area of the other lateral edge as an elevation offset in the transverse direction, a blade arrangement having at least two of such blades as well as a turbomachine having a plurality of such blades.

Abstract: A securing device (20) for axially securing a blade root (12) of a blade in a groove (11) of a turbine engine. The outer contour (24) of the securing device (20) that faces a groove wall, in particular a groove base (33), is curved at least in some regions, the outer contour (24) having three different radii (R1, R2, R3) in some regions.

Abstract: A method for machining a workpiece. An electrode is moved linearly in the direction of the workpiece to cause material to be removed from the workpiece, at least one end of a surface of the workpiece running obliquely to a guide edge of the electrode machining this surface. The electrode is moved at least partially with the electrode surface parallel to the surface, so that during the approach to the workpiece, areas of the workpiece having an irregular edge machined at a different intensity are formed, the difference in intensity of machining on the edge of the surface to be machined being compensated in that the surface to be machined is provided with a height profile adapted to the shape of the end of the surface to be machined. A blade ring segment and blade ring is also disclosed.