Abstract: Systems for tube-to-tube connections are described herein. A device having an aperture for receiving a tube may comprise: an inlet portion comprising a first diameter, the inlet portion located at an inlet of the aperture; a braze filler collector portion located axially adjacent to the inlet portion comprising a second diameter, the second diameter being greater than the first diameter; a necked portion located axially adjacent to the braze filler collector portion comprising a third diameter, the third diameter being less than the first diameter and the second diameter; a flow surface comprising a fourth diameter, the fourth diameter being less than the third diameter, the flow surface defining a void; and a collection pocket located axially adjacent to the necked portion, the collection pocket configured to collect a braze filler material from the necked portion to prevent the braze filler material from contacting the flow surface.

Abstract: A component according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things a wall and a vascular engineered lattice structure formed inside of the wall. The vascular engineered lattice structure defines a hollow vascular structure configured to communicate a fluid through the vascular engineered lattice structure. The vascular engineered lattice structure has at least one inlet hole and at least one outlet hole that communicates the fluid into and out of the hollow vascular structure. A method for producing a component is also disclosed.

Abstract: A method of preparing a casting article for manufacturing a gas turbine engine part according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes communicating a powdered material to an additive manufacturing system, the powdered material including at least one of a silica material, an alumina material, and a refractory metal material. The method includes using the additive manufacturing system to manufacture a casting article layer by layer, the casting article including a plurality of circuit forming portions, at least one of the circuit forming portions including an interior channel that establishes a hollow opening through the circuit forming portion.

Abstract: One exemplary embodiment of this disclosure relates to a method of forming an engine component. The method includes forming an engine component having an internal passageway, the internal passageway formed with an initial dimension. The method further includes establishing a flow of machining fluid within the internal passageway, the machining fluid changing the initial dimension.

Abstract: A variable vane pack includes an inner platform, an outer platform, radially outward of the inner platform, a plurality of vanes connecting the inner platform to the outer platform, wherein the outer platform comprises a platform body and an impingement plate, the impingement plate having a radially inward impingement plate, a radially outward pressure distribution plate, and an impingement plenum defined between the radially inward impingement plate and the radially outward pressure distribution plate.

Abstract: A method for evaluating a turbine component includes inducing a thermal response of the component at an initial time, capturing a two-dimensional infrared image of the thermal response of the component with a thermal imaging device, wherein the two-dimensional infrared image comprises a plurality of infrared image pixels, generating a two-dimension to three-dimension mapping template to correlate two-dimensional infrared image data with three-dimensional locations on the component, mapping at least a subset of the plurality of infrared image pixels of the two-dimensional infrared image to three-dimensional coordinates using the mapping template, and generating a three-dimensional infrared image and infrared data of the component from the mapped infrared image pixels to three-dimensional coordinates, wherein the three-dimensional infrared image and infrared data is used to qualify the component for use.

Abstract: A method for applying a coating to a substrate having a plurality of holes. The method comprises: applying a braze material to a substrate having a plurality of holes; heating the substrate to melt the braze material to form a melt; cooling the substrate to solidify the melt to form plugs in the respective holes; applying a coating to the substrate; and further heating the substrate to melt the plugs.

Abstract: A cooling system integrated into a stator assembly of a gas turbine engine has an on-board injector or cooling nozzle located for cooling of a rotor assembly. The nozzle may be generally annular and may contain a plurality of pivoting airfoils circumferentially spaced from one-another for directing cooling air flow from the nozzle and generally toward a plurality of holes in a cover of the rotor assembly. The pivoting airfoils are adapted to move between a spoiled state where the mass flow of cooling air is reduced, and to an optimal state where the mass flow is increased. The system may further include a plurality of fixed airfoils in the nozzle with adjacent fixed airfoils defining a discharge orifice in the nozzle. Each one of the plurality of pivoting airfoils may be located in a respective discharge orifice.

Abstract: A conduction riser additively manufactured onto thin metal parts, the conduction riser extending in a build direction of the thin metal part and traversing the thin metal part as the conduction riser extends in the build direction. The conduction riser transferring heat from the upper layers of additively manufactured part during manufacturing, preventing thermal deflection of the part.

Abstract: A variable vane pack includes an inner platform, an outer platform, radially outward of the inner platform, a plurality of vanes connecting the inner platform to the outer platform, wherein the outer platform comprises a platform body and an impingement plate, the impingement plate having a radially inward impingement plate, a radially outward pressure distribution plate, and an impingement plenum defined between the radially inward impingement plate and the radially outward pressure distribution plate.

Abstract: A casting article according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a circuit forming portion and an interior channel formed inside of the circuit forming portion. The interior channel defines a leaching path that extends at least partially through the circuit forming portion.

Abstract: A component according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things a wall and a vascular engineered lattice structure formed inside of the wall. The vascular engineered lattice structure defines a hollow vascular structure configured to communicate a fluid through the vascular engineered lattice structure. The vascular engineered lattice structure has at least one inlet hole and at least one outlet hole that communicates the fluid into and out of the hollow vascular structure.

Abstract: An additive manufacturing system utilizing an epitaxy process, and method of manufacture, utilizes a heating source and a cooling source to control thermal gradients and a solidification rate of each slice of a workpiece manufactured from a seed having a directional grain microstructure. An energy gun is utilized to melt selected regions of each successive layer of a plurality layers of a powder in a powder bed to successively form each solidified slice of the workpiece.

Abstract: An airfoil for a gas turbine engine, the airfoil includes a wall that has a leading edge and a trailing edge and at least partially defining a boundary of a leading edge cavity radially along the leading edge. A cooling jet structure is operatively associated with a portion of the wall proximate the leading edge and is configured to direct a cooling fluid tangent to the portion of the wall.

Abstract: A gas turbine engine component is described. The component includes a component wall having an internal surface that is adjacent a flow of coolant and an external surface that is adjacent a flow of gas. The component wall includes a cooling hole that has an inlet defined by the internal surface and an outlet defined by the external surface. The cooling holes also has a metering location having the smallest cross-section area of the cooling hole, an internal diffuser positioned between the inlet and the metering location, an accumulation diverter portion of the internal diffuser and an accumulator portion of the internal diffuser.

Abstract: One exemplary embodiment of this disclosure relates to a gas turbine engine including a first engine component and a second engine component. The first engine component has a mate face adjacent a mate face of the second engine component. The engine further includes a seal between the mate face of the first engine component and the mate face of the second engine component. The seal establishes three points of contact with each mate face in at least one condition.

Abstract: A gas turbine engine component includes a wall that provides an exterior surface and an interior flow path surface. A film cooling hole extends through the wall and is configured to fluidly connect the interior flow path surface to the exterior surface. The film cooling hole has a pocket that faces the interior flow path and extends substantially in a longitudinal direction. The film cooling hole has a portion downstream from the pocket and is arranged at an angle relative to the longitudinal direction and extends to the exterior surface.

Abstract: A wall of a gas turbine engine is provided. The wall may comprise an external surface adjacent a gas path and an internal surface adjacent an internal flow path. A film hole may have an inlet at the internal surface and an outlet at the external surface. A flow accumulator adjacent the inlet may protrude from the internal surface. A method of making an engine component is also provided and comprises the step of forming a component wall comprising an accumulator on an internal surface and a film hole defined by the component wall. The film hole may include an opening adjacent the accumulator and defined by the internal surface.

Abstract: An airfoil according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a first cooling hole with a first cooling passage arranged at a first angle relative to a chordwise axis and a second cooling hole with a second cooling passage arranged at a second different angle relative to the chordwise axis. A radial projection of the first cooling passage intersects a radial projection of the second cooling passage.

Abstract: A device and methods are provided for controlling a gas turbine engine based at least in part on real-time detection of spatially resolved temperature distributions of a turbine engine components. In one embodiment, a method includes detecting surface temperature of one or more blade elements, by an thermal probe, in a plurality of radial locations of an airfoil row to determine real-time spatially resolved surface temperature data for the one or more blade elements of the airfoil row, and controlling the engine based on the real-time spatially resolved surface temperature data.