Abstract: A method is provided for producing an annular wall structure, the method including the steps of feeding an elongated sheet in its longitudinal direction, plastically deforming a flat surface of the sheet so that a set recess pattern is formed in the elongated sheet during the feeding, and joining edges of a deformed individual sheet and/or edges.

Abstract: Method and device (2) for monitoring a welding area of an object (14) in connection with welding, which device includes arrangements (3) for reproduction of the welding area, at least one filter (4) arranged in front of or in the reproduction arrangement (3), and an illumination arrangement (5) of the welding area with ultraviolet radiation. The filter (4) consists of a band-pass filter which is adapted for filtering around a wavelength within the ultraviolet wavelength range.

Abstract: An engine wall structure includes an inner wall to which hot gas is admitted during engine operation, an outer wall, which is colder than the inner wall during engine operation, and at least two webs that connect the inner wall with the outer wall and delimit a cooling duct between the walls. The webs are mainly formed by a first material and the inner wall is mainly formed by a second material of other composition and other heat conductivity than the first material.

Abstract: A propulsion system for a craft includes two jet engines which are arranged parallel to one another. The system further includes an inlet and/or outlet device for each jet engine. Each device includes a duct for carrying a gas, the duct having a gas inlet and a gas outlet. The gas outlet is arranged offset in relation to the gas inlet transversely to the longitudinal direction of the duct, so that the jet engine is hidden from external view.

Abstract: A mounting element for transferring loads between a gas turbine engine and an airframe is provided, the mounting element presenting a cylindrical hole for receiving a fastening element, such as a pin or a bolt. The mounting element includes a collapsible element surrounding the hole, and is adapted to operate in a first mode, and to operate, upon a collapse of the collapsible element, in a second mode, in which the stiffness of the mounting element is lower than in the first mode. In a second aspect of the invention the energy absorption capacity of the mounting element is higher in the second mode than in the first mode.

Abstract: A system is provided for mixing gas flows in a gas turbine engine. The system includes an annular wall structure which internally delimits a channel for a first gas flow. The wall structure includes a plurality of first wall portions. At least one of the first wall portions is movably arranged in a radial direction between a first position and a second position for mixing an external gas flow with the first gas flow.

Abstract: An engine wall structure includes an inner wall to which hot gas is admitted during engine operation, an outer wall, which is colder than the inner wall during engine operation, and at least two webs that connect the inner wall with the outer wall and delimit a cooling duct between the walls. The webs are mainly formed by a first material and the inner wall is mainly formed by a second material of other composition and other heat conductivity than the first material.

Abstract: A masking arrangement for a gas turbine engine includes a plurality of annular elements arranged overlapping one another when these are viewed in an axial direction so as to mask at least a substantial portion of any interior hot and rotating gas turbine engine part at an aft end of the gas turbine engine from rear view when the masking arrangement is applied downstream the interior part in the gas turbine engine.

Abstract: A device is provided for moving a plurality of hatches, spaced at intervals from one another in a circumferential direction of a gas turbine engine, between a first position and a second position, wherein each of the hatches is arranged to keep an opening in a wall in a closed position, when in the first position, and to keep the opening in an open position, when in the second position. At least one of the hatches is provided with two connecting members which are mutually separated in the circumferential direction of the device, and the device includes a linkage for the movement, the linkage being connected to the hatch at the two mutually separated connecting members.

Abstract: A welding device includes at least one beam-reflecting side element arranged so as to reflect at least a part of a high energy density beam towards a region in which a weld joint is to be generated in a piece of material, wherein the beam-reflecting side element protrudes from a surface of said piece of material.

Abstract: A gas turbine engine component is provided including at least one ring element, and a plurality of circumferentially spaced load carrying vanes extending in a radial direction of the ring element. The load carrying vanes have an internal structure with an anisotropic load carrying property, and the internal structure is configured so that a main load carrying direction is in parallel with the extension direction of the load carrying vane. The component includes a stiffening structure bridging the distance between at least two adjacent load carrying vanes in the circumferential direction of the ring element, and the at least two adjacent load carrying vanes are attached to the stiffening structure.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a wall structure includes producing at least one elongated web in a workpiece by feeding a machining tool along the workpiece, wherein the machining tool simultaneously machines a first side surface of the web, a second side surface of the web and a top surface of the web.

Abstract: A component configured for being subjected to a high thermal load during operation includes a wall structure with cooling channels adapted for handling a coolant flow. At least one first cooling channel is adapted to convey the coolant from a first portion of the component to a second portion of the component. At least one second cooling channel in the second portion is closed so that the coolant is at least substantially-prevented from entering the closed second cooling channel from a cooling channel in the first portion.

Abstract: Method and arrangement for providing a stator or rotor component that is intended during operation to conduct a gas flow. A first wall part (14, 15) is placed with its one edge bearing against the flat side of a second wall part (9, 10), extending in the radial direction of the component, in such a way that the first wall part extends in the circumferential direction of the component. The edge of the first wall part is then laser-welded to the second wall part from an, in the circumferential direction, opposite side of the second wall part in relation to the first wall part in such a way that the joined-together portions of the wall parts form a T-shaped joint.

Abstract: A device is provided for pivoting at least one pivotable element in a gas turbine engine between a first and a second position in order to influence a gas flow in an annular gas duct in at least one of the positions. The device includes a moveable annular member which is arranged externally around the gas duct and is connected to the pivotable element in order to effect the pivoting of the pivotable element. The annular member is more specifically arranged to be displaced in a substantially axial direction and arranged to pivot the pivotable element when it is displaced axially.

Abstract: An outlet device for a jet engine comprises a number of fixed ducts, each with a gas intake and a gas outlet for conducting a gas from the jet engine, at least two of the outlets of said gas ducts open in different directions, and a gas distribution arrangement is arranged at the gas intakes for selective distribution of the gas to the ducts.

Abstract: In a blade intended to be exposed to a gas flow at high speed during operation of a flow machine comprising the blade, the blade includes a front end designed to face towards the incoming gas flow and a rear end. The front end is provided with a concave area that is such that during operation a stagnation point for the incoming gas flow arises at a distance in front of an outer blade surface that defines the concave area and such that the outer blade surface is thereby at least partially protected from the incoming gas flow.

Abstract: A wheel for a rotating flow machine, comprising a rotor (1) on which a plurality of blades (2) are arranged projecting radially from the rotor (1), with each blade (2) having a root (3) attached to the rotor (1) and a blade top (4). In addition, the wheel comprises a ring (5) arranged concentrically in relation to the rotor (1) outside the blade tops (4) in such a way that the ring (5) and the blades (2) overlap each other when the ring and the blades are viewed in a radial direction, which ring (5) is arranged to be caused to rotate by the blades (2) when the rotor (1) rotates. The extent (9) of the blades (2) in a radial direction and the internal dimension (10) of the ring (5) are matched to each other in such a way that there is a clearance (?) between each blade top (4) and the ring (5) in radial direction when the rotor (1) is not rotating.

Abstract: In a method for measuring the size or shape of an edge of a machined work piece or of a cutting edge of a tool, the surface of the edge is illuminated by diffused radiation from several positions in the vicinity to the edge by an illumination arrangement, and a picture of the edge is reproduced by recording reflected radiation from the illuminated edge by means of a picture reproduction unit.

Abstract: A gas turbine casing for enclosing a gas turbine component, such as a fan, a compressor, a combustion chamber or a turbine is provided. The casing includes a double wall structure having a first inner tube and a second outer tube, the first inner tube and the second outer tube extending around a geometric longitudinal axis, which is intended to basically coincide with a longitudinal geometric central axis of a gas turbine. The first inner tube and the second outer tube overlap one another when these are viewed in a radial direction, a gap being formed between the outer boundary surface of the first inner tube and the inner boundary surface of the second outer tube. The double wall structure furthermore has a plurality of stays which take the form of plates, which are spaced at an interval from one another and extend radially between the first inner tube and the second outer tube, and which stays connect the first inner tube and the second outer tube to one another.