Abstract: Inner and outer surfaces of structural components are aluminized by an aluminum gas diffusion process. For this purpose a gas mixture of a halogenous gas, aluminum monohalide gas, hydrogen, and negligible proportions of aluminum trihalide gas is caused to flow over the outer and inner surfaces of the component to be coated. The process is performed in a vessel in which at least two different temperature zones are maintained for keeping one or more aluminum sources at a higher temperature than the component to be coated. Especially gas turbine engine blades are protected against oxidation and corrosion by the so formed aluminum diffusion coatings on outer and inner surfaces of the blades.

Abstract: This invention relates to apparatus for sealing a clearance between two components in relative movement one with respect to the other. A sealing strip between the two components is arranged in a direction transverse to the direction of movement to bear against a sealing face of the first component to seal the clearance. The sealing strip is allowed to float in a groove in the second component on a fluid flowing all around between the groove and sealing strip. This invention finds preferred use on rectangular-section exhaust gas nozzles of turbojet engines, where the components represent the lateral wall or nozzle flaps and the fluid is air tapped at the compressor, which simultaneously serves to cool the nozzle flaps and the sealing strip. The contact pressure of the sealing strip against the sealing face can therefore be made a function of engine load.

Abstract: A radiator through which a coolant flows and which is cooled by the cooling air supplied by a cooling air blower is associated with an internal combustion engine as a rule. An airflow guidance housing disposed between the radiator and the cooling air blower is used to guide the air. With an uneven flow of cooling air, the maximum efficiency of the radiator cannot be utilized. The cooling air flow is evened out and the cooling output is increased in that the flow resistance in the radiator or in a flow grating associated with it is greater in the areas close to the cooling air blower than in the areas remote from the cooling air blower. To achieve corresponding flow resistances, it is contemplated to make the distances between cooling fins in the radiator or segments in the flow grating of different width in the respective zones.

Abstract: The curvature profile of edges, such as trailing edges of propulsion plant blades or vanes is measured by a device that uses a laser beam for illuminating the curvature profile. The laser beam is generated by a laser that causes its beam to pass through a radiation intensity matrix arranged between the laser and the curvature profile. The radiation intensity matrix has locally different intensity values for varying the laser beam intensity over the cross-section of the laser beam. Sensors are so arranged that they sense the reflection values of the laser beam along the curvature profile of the profile edge. The outputs of the sensors are operatively connected to a central processing unit for ascertaining the curvature profile on the basis of the sensed reflection values. Thus, even sharp edges, such as knife edges, cutting tool edges, or propulsion plant blade edges can be checked for their current quality.

Abstract: A blank material for manufacturing fiber-reinforced coatings or metal components including fibers made of a high-strength material and metals or metal alloys, and a process for manufacturing the blank, and for manufacturing coatings and components made therefrom. The fibers are aligned in the blank in parallel to its axis, and metal wire meshes are knitted around them, with the fibers embedded at a distance from one another. By means of high-temperature isostatic pressing, metal components can be made, through which the reinforcing fibers extend at a uniform distance.

Abstract: A device for coating hollow workpieces made of heat-resistant alloys, such as Ni, Co or Fe base alloy via gas diffusion is provided. The outer and inner surfaces of the workpieces are linked with one another by bores. The workpieces are arranged in a container which is located in a processing chamber. The workpiece holders are arranged at a geodetically low height with respect to a donor metal body. The donor metal body made of granulates, sintered metal or compact metal completely surrounds the outer surfaces of each workpiece to be coated while maintaining a gap. The device is suitable for the inner and outer coating of power unit blades with cooling air bores.

Abstract: A vibration damper for rotor housings includes a rubber-elastic damping band (6) that encircles the outer circumference of the rotor housing (4) in a contour fitting manner. A clamping band (7) encircles the damping band (6) and secures the damping band to the housing (4). The clamping band is made of a material having a different modulus of elasticity than the material of the rotor housing, which achieves a detuning of the vibrational system including the rotor housing and the vibration damper as components. Such a detuning reduces the vibrational tendency of the rotor housing. Frictional rubbing between the damping band and the housing surface, and between the damping band and the clamping band effectively damps or dissipates the energy of any vibration that does occur.

Abstract: A device for axially securing a moving blade and for eliminating rotor unbalances is provided. The moving blade has a blade base. A wheel disk has circumferentially distributed axial grooves. The blade base is anchored in one of the axial grooves wherein the axial groove encloses an indentation formed between a bottom of the axial groove and an end of the blade base. A filler piece operatively arranged on the bottom of the axial groove, and a securing plate having two ends, are insertable into the indentation. The securing plate is arranged to bridge a gap formed between the end of the blade base and the filler piece along an axial length of the indentation with the two ends projecting beyond the indentation. The securing plate is bent at each of its two ends in a mutually opposite manner with respect to end faces of the filler piece, wheel disk and blade base. One rotor unbalance of the blade is compensated by at least one filler piece.

Abstract: Support apparatus for the exhaust pipe of an internal combustion engine in which three suspension rods pivotably support the pipe at one longitudinal station and two others engage the pipe at a second longitudinal station. An external radial force is applied to the pipe preferably at a suspension rod at the second station. Specific and constant bearing forces determined by the size of the external force occur essentially independently of the temperature of the exhaust pipe and these forces hold the exhaust pipe in a secure state, free of play, without introducing damaging stresses. In addition, the position of the exhaust pipe at a specific temperature can be obtained by suitable selection of the arrangement and length of the suspension rods.

Abstract: A process for vapor depositing a metallic interlayer on the surface of a metal component, for example, by sputtering and thereafter depositing an aluminum diffusion coating on the interlayer. The metallic interlayer is vapor deposited on the surface of the component in a noble gas atmosphere, more than one-half of which, in per cent by weight, is composed of noble gases which are heavier than argon. Advantageously, the noble gases can be krypton or xenon. The process can be used with particular advantage for applying protective aluminum diffusion coatings on turbine blades.

Abstract: In a method of manufacturing fiber-reinforced engine components having a metal matrix, a long or even continuous silicon carbide fiber is first coated with a matrix metal of a titanium-based alloy by atomizing or sputtering. Then, the fibers coated with matrix material are wound onto a mold in the direction of the anticipated stresses. A covering of foils, bands, wires, pressed-on granulates, sintered-on powders or a top coating of matrix metal is then applied onto the surface of the fibers wound onto the mold. Finally the mold with the wound-on, matrix-material coated fibers and the covering of matrix metal is subjected to hot isostatic pressing. This method is used to manufacture engine shafts, shroud bands for turbine wheels or disk-less turbine wheels having retaining rings holding the blades.

Abstract: A cooling system for a supercharged internal-combustion engine has a high-temperature and a low-temperature circulating system, in which two charge air coolers, through which coolant of different temperature levels flows, are provided for cooling the charge air in two stages. The high-temperature circulating system comprises a main branch with the internal-combustion engine and a high-temperature recooler which is connected in series with it. So that the total quantity of coolant may be kept low and a high degree of heat exchange can be achieved while the arrangement of the pipes is simple, the coolant quantity flowing out of the secondary circulating system is admixed to a coolant flow leading to the internal-combustion engine, and the total coolant flow flowing out of the internal-combustion engine is then guided to the high-temperature recooler.

Abstract: A closed loop control and a closed loop control method use frequency filters for controlling the width of an air gap in an electromagnetic levitation system between a machine bed and a mass, such as a machine to be levitated. The control includes closed loop control elements to electromagnetically simulate a mechanical spring having a variable, sonic frequency-dependent spring characteristic including the spring rate and damping for providing an acoustic insulation to prevent vibration transmissions into the machine bed. The control element includes filters responsive to sonic frequencies. The closed loop control supports and guides the levitated machine within narrow air gap widths in the very low frequency range and prevents the transmission of vibration forces to the machine bed in the low, medium and high frequency ranges.

Abstract: A process for the production of structural parts or substrates with composite coatings by electrolytic or electroless deposition of a metal matrix in which the structural part or substrate surface is first coated with a mixture of a water-soluble powder of salt or acid and dispersed particles, fibers, felt, mat or woven fabric. Then the salt or the acid is melted and transformed to a water-soluble substance which fixes the particles, fibers, felt, mat or woven fabric to the surface of the structural part or substrate. The water-soluble substance is dissolved by immersing the structural part or substrate in an electrolytic or electroless deposition bath, and a metal matrix is deposited onto the structural part or substrate to incorporate the dispersed particles, fibers, felt, mat or woven fabrics in the matrix as a composite coating.

Abstract: A guide vane for an axial guide baffle of an axial flow engine, such as a jet engine, is adjustable in its position about a guide vane adjustment axis extending radially to a rotational engine axis. The guide vane has a vane body and an adjustment lever extending at an angle of about 90.degree. away from the adjustment axis. The vane body, the adjustment lever, and at least one bearing journal form an integral one piece construction either of molded fiber composite material or of forged, e.g. drop forged, metal.

Abstract: A burner for gas turbine engines is provided in which a ring-shaped swirling device is coaxially assigned to a fuel nozzle. The swirling device forms tangential ducts for an adjustable feeding of combustion air between profiles arranged along the circumference. In this case, the profiles are to be formed by corresponding sections of components which are arranged to be axially movable relative to one another. One respective section of a profile is to be a hollow body in which the corresponding other section engages in a movable manner. With the burner, a combustion is made possible that is low in pollutants while the swirling efficiency and the rotational swirl development are optimal.

Abstract: A burner for gas turbine engines is provided in which a ring-shaped swirling device is coaxially assigned to a fuel nozzle. The swirling device forms tangential ducts for an adjustable feeding of combustion air between profiled surfaces arranged along the circumference. Two components, which are axially adjustable relative to one another, are to form, on mutually opposite faces, the ducts between profiles and recesses which are arranged offset relative to one another along the circumference, in such a manner that, when at least one component is adjusted, the profiles can be moved into the recesses for a reduction of the duct cross-sections or can be moved out of the recesses for an enlargement of the duct cross-sections.

Abstract: A matrix of heat exchange tubes in a heat exchanger in which a first fluid flows in the heat exchange tubes and undergoes heat exchange with a second fluid flowing externally on the heat exchange tubes. The tubes have a teardrop shape and are arranged in the matrix in parallel relation in rows in which each tube has a rounded surface at one end and a tapered narrow surface at the other end. The tubes in each row all face in the same direction and the tubes in alternate rows face in opposite directions. The tubes have alternate unequal spacing of distances a.sub.1 and a.sub.2 in successive rows. The tubes can be bent to form a U-shape matrix or a semi-circular matrix. The tubes are each manufactured by filling the space between an inner channel and an outer shell of the tube with a ceramic or metal.

Abstract: A tension strained fiber structure component comprises a plurality of mutually connected structural elements which each consists of a fiber strand plate aligned in the tension direction and of a pressure plate extending at an acute angle with respect to the tension direction, which are both connected with one another. As a result, a favorable introduction of the tension forces into a separate supporting component can be achieved.

Abstract: An engine has a shroud which surrounds one of a propfan and a propeller having blades. The shroud has a variable geometry. A direction of the air flow inside a duct of the shroud is reversible via an adjustment of the blades for the reversal of the thrust of the engine. A separately movable nozzle ring forms a rearward end of the shroud. The nozzle ring is axially displaceable to an extent such that its trailing edge forms wherein air flow is promoted around the end of the shroud.