Abstract: A guide vane ring which is divided into an upper and into a lower guide vane ring half, with an inner ring which is split at least in two, has a substantially U-shaped cross section, and forms a radially outwardly open flow duct which extends in the circumferential direction and is delimited by way of an inner ring bottom wall and two inner ring side walls, and with a multiplicity of vane platforms which receive guide vanes, are arranged along the outer circumference of the inner ring, and have holding webs which in each case project radially inwards, are spaced apart from one another in the axial direction, and engage around the inner ring side walls from the outside, wherein wear elements are inserted into gaps which are present between holding webs and directly adjacently arranged inner ring side walls.

Abstract: A guide vane ring which is divided into an upper and into a lower guide vane ring half, with an inner ring which is split at least in two, has a substantially U-shaped cross section, and forms a radially outwardly open flow duct which extends in the circumferential direction and is delimited by way of an inner ring bottom wall and two inner ring side walls, and with a multiplicity of vane platforms which receive guide vanes, are arranged along the outer circumference of the inner ring, and have holding webs which in each case project radially inwards, are spaced apart from one another in the axial direction, and engage around the inner ring side walls from the outside, wherein wear elements are inserted into gaps which are present between holding webs and directly adjacently arranged inner ring side walls.

Abstract: An aerofoil for a turbine blade, having a leading edge onto which a hot gas can flow and from which a suction-side wall and a pressure-side wall extend to a trailing edge of the aerofoil, the aerofoil extending in a direction transverse thereto from a root-side end having an aerofoil height of 0% to a tip-side end having an aerofoil height of 100%, and having at least two rows of cooling holes arranged along the leading edge, which cooling holes are at a mutual spacing which can be measured perpendicularly to the leading edge. In order to provide a turbine blade which can be used, with reduced cooling complexity, for additional reliable cooling of the leading edge in various operating conditions, the at least two rows of cooling holes are arranged at least in part in a wavy line along the leading edge.

Abstract: A method for producing a cavity in a blade platform of a blade, in particular of a turbine blade, as part of a blade-platform cooling system, wherein the method has the steps of: producing a first bore from a first platform lateral face in the direction of an opposite second platform lateral face, with a first opening in the first platform lateral face being created, and expanding the first bore in a fan-like manner by an electrical discharge machining method, in particular using a wire- or bar-form electrode, such that the first opening, created in the first step, of the first bore represents the starting point of the fan-like expansion. A blade is produced in particular with such a method.

Abstract: An aerofoil for a turbine blade, having a leading edge onto which a hot gas can flow and from which a suction-side wall and a pressure-side wall extend to a trailing edge of the aerofoil, the aerofoil extending in a direction transverse thereto from a root-side end having an aerofoil height of 0% to a tip-side end having an aerofoil height of 100%, and having at least two rows of cooling holes arranged along the leading edge, which cooling holes are at a mutual spacing which can be measured perpendicularly to the leading edge. In order to provide a turbine blade which can be used, with reduced cooling complexity, for additional reliable cooling of the leading edge in various operating conditions, the at least two rows of cooling holes are arranged at least in part in a wavy line along the leading edge.

Abstract: Provided is a method for maintaining an axial-flow turbomachine, which has a support structure and a plurality of axially adjacent guide vane rings each of which has a plurality of guide vanes, each guide vane having at least one platform, the platforms being fastened to the support structure by means of retaining elements, wherein facing platform end faces of axially adjacent guide vanes define sealing sections made of a metal material, the sealing sections being associated with each other and jointly forming a sealing assembly.

Abstract: A guide vane for a turbomachine having an outer platform, a blade airfoil protruding from the outer platform, extending in a longitudinal direction and defining a cavity in its interior, an inner platform arranged opposite the outer platform and connected to the blade airfoil, and a connecting tube which passes through the cavity of the blade airfoil in the longitudinal direction. The first free end of the tube is inserted into a through-opening formed in the inner platform and materially bonded to the inner platform, and the second free end of the tube is arranged in a cooling fluid inlet opening formed on the outer platform, away from the edge thereof, and projecting outward from the outer platform. At least one guide is attached to the outer platform and designed to guide the connecting tube in the longitudinal direction in the event of a thermal change in length.

Abstract: A turbine rotor blade for a thermal continuous flow machine, wherein a transition region and an aerodynamically shaped turbine blade connected to same, follows a blade foot for securing the turbine rotor blade to a rotor along a notional blade longitudinal axis of the turbine rotor blade from bottom to top. The blade foot has two flat end surfaces facing one another, two contoured side surfaces facing one another and joining the two end surfaces to one another, in which side surface at least one respective carrying edge is formed by creating dovetail- or fir tree-like end surface contour. The carrying edges become free edges or extend into the transition region via concave rounded portions. A channel bordering one of the two end sides is arranged in at least one concave rounded portion, the extension of which channel along the side surface is less than that of the carrying edge.

Abstract: A method for producing turbine rotor blades or the base bodies thereof includes a) providing the base body, which has, following one another along a longitudinal axis, a blade root, a blade platform and a blade airfoil, b) sensing a value of at least one parameter of the base body, at least one of the parameters representing a vibrational property of the base body, c) comparing the sensed value with a predetermined target interval, d) if the sensed value lies outside the target interval, reducing the mass of the base body, wherein the reduction of the mass takes place at the blade root and/or on the blade platform by introducing at least one recess and/or by reducing a dimension below the corresponding target value.

Abstract: A turbine blade with a ceramic thermal barrier coating system has a substrate designed as a blade platform and as a blade airfoil. On the substrate is a first ceramic layer as a thermal barrier coating, which protects the substrate in the exposed high temperature region and there is locally an increase of the thermal barrier coating for locally reinforcing the thermal barrier. The increase includes a material that is different from the material of the first ceramic layer. The local reinforcement is arranged over the first ceramic layer, without the first ceramic layer having a reduced layer thickness. The local reinforcement is provided at most on 30% of the area of the blade airfoil and is arranged close to a platform extending over the entire pressure side in the direction of flow and with an extent thereto in the radial direction of the blade airfoil is at most 30%.

Abstract: A method for producing a cavity in a blade platform of a blade, in particular of a turbine blade, as part of a blade-platform cooling system, wherein the method has the steps of: producing a first bore from a first platform lateral face in the direction of an opposite second platform lateral face, with a first opening in the first platform lateral face being created, and expanding the first bore in a fan-like manner by an electrical discharge machining method, in particular using a wire- or bar-form electrode, such that the first opening, created in the first step, of the first bore represents the starting point of the fan-like expansion. A blade is produced in particular with such a method.

Abstract: Provided is a method for maintaining an axial-flow turbomachine, which has a support structure and a plurality of axially adjacent guide vane rings each of which has a plurality of guide vanes, each guide vane having at least one platform, the platforms being fastened to the support structure by means of retaining elements, wherein facing platform end faces of axially adjacent guide vanes define sealing sections made of a metal material, the sealing sections being associated with each other and jointly forming a sealing assembly.

Abstract: A method for modifying a turbine with rotor blade rings and guide vane rings arranged in a conical housing, in which an original rotor blade ring at a first rotor blade position is replaced by a replacement rotor blade ring at a second rotor blade position, wherein the second rotor blade position is arranged spaced apart from the first rotor blade position along a direction of extent of a rotor shaft of the turbine in the flow direction of a working medium flowing through the turbine.

Abstract: A turbine blade with aerodynamic aerofoil, which extends from a bottom to a top end and has two aerofoil walls extending between, which transversely thereto extend from a common leading to a common trailing edge, and with at least one platform, which extends transversely in relation to the aerofoil and is arranged at one of the two ends of the aerofoil. A number of openings are provided in the trailing edge between the bottom end and the top end. Either the opening in the trailing edge arranged closest to the platform surface extends into the platform surface or the platform surface facing the aerofoil is lowered locally in the region of that opening that is closest to the platform, and the opening opens out into a portion of the trailing edge that has become free as a result of the lowering.

Abstract: A method for producing turbine rotor blades or the base bodies thereof includes a) providing the base body, which has, following one another along a longitudinal axis, a blade root, a blade platform and a blade airfoil, b) sensing a value of at least one parameter of the base body, at least one of the parameters representing a vibrational property of the base body, c) comparing the sensed value with a predetermined target interval, d) if the sensed value lies outside the target interval, reducing the mass of the base body, wherein the reduction of the mass takes place at the blade root and/or on the blade platform by introducing at least one recess and/or by reducing a dimension below the corresponding target value.

Abstract: A method for optimizing a design of a rotor blade which has a blade root and a blade airfoil, of a turbomachine in which an actual natural frequency of the rotor blade is detected and compared with a reference value or reference range and, if a deviation or match between the actual natural frequency and the reference value or reference range, which will impair the proper operation of the rotor blade, is identified, a structural change to the rotor blade is undertaken in order to change the natural frequency thereof, wherein as the structural change at least one cutout is formed at a predetermined position on at least one side face of the rotor blade root. A rotor blade for a turbomachine, which blade has a blade root and a blade airfoil, wherein at least one cutout is formed on at least one side face of the rotor blade root.

Abstract: A turbine blade having an internally cooled turbine blade airfoil in which a hollow space is divided by rib elements into at least one cooling duct carrying a coolant, wherein in at least one of the rib elements a separating tear initiating device for producing a separating tear is disposed, which extends at least partially in the longitudinal direction of the at least one rib element.

Abstract: A guide vane for a turbomachine having an outer platform, a blade airfoil protruding from the outer platform, extending in a longitudinal direction and defining a cavity in its interior, an inner platform arranged opposite the outer platform and connected to the blade airfoil, and a connecting tube which passes through the cavity of the blade airfoil in the longitudinal direction. The first free end of the tube is inserted into a through-opening formed in the inner platform and materially bonded to the inner platform, and the second free end of the tube is arranged in a cooling fluid inlet opening formed on the outer platform, away from the edge thereof, and projecting outward from the outer platform. At least one guide is attached to the outer platform and designed to guide the connecting tube in the longitudinal direction in the event of a thermal change in length.

Abstract: A turbine blade, including: an airfoil and a platform, which has an upper face on which the airfoil is arranged; and at least one lateral face, the lateral face including a slot for insertion of a sealing strip. The transition between the upper face of the platform and the at least one lateral face includes a stepped portion and a beveled portion is provided.

Abstract: A turbine blade with a ceramic thermal barrier coating system has a substrate designed as a blade platform and as a blade airfoil. On the substrate is a first ceramic layer as a thermal barrier coating, which protects the substrate in the exposed high temperature region and there is locally an increase of the thermal barrier coating for locally reinforcing the thermal barrier. The increase includes a material that is different from the material of the first ceramic layer. The local reinforcement is arranged over the first ceramic layer, without the first ceramic layer having a reduced layer thickness. The local reinforcement is provided at most on 30% of the area of the blade airfoil and is arranged close to a platform extending over the entire pressure side in the direction of flow and with an extent thereto in the radial direction of the blade airfoil is at most 30%.