Abstract: A method for producing a metal reinforcement for protecting a leading edge of a compressor blade of composite, including: creating a core that has a shape of an internal cavity of the reinforcement; creating an insert made of an alloy of a hardness greater than that of the reinforcement; shaping sheet metal by stamping with the creation, upstream of the core, a cavity between the metal sheets, which cavity is configured to accept the insert, positioning the sheets around the core with the insert placed in the cavity and securing the assembly together; creating a vacuum and closing the assembly by welding; consolidation by hot isostatic pressing; cutting the assembly to extract the core and separate the reinforcement; creating an external profile of the reinforcement by a final machining operation that reveals a material of the insert.

Abstract: A method of making a metal reinforcing member that is to be mounted on a leading edge or a trailing edge of a composite blade of a turbine engine, the method including: shaping two metal sheets, positioning them on either side of a core including at least one recess that is to form a mold for a spacer for positioning the reinforcing member, assembling them together under a vacuum, conforming them against the core by hot isostatic compression, and cutting them to separate the reinforcing member and release the core.

Abstract: In structural reinforcement for a composite blade of a turbine engine, the reinforcement being for adhesively bonding to a leading edge of the blade and presenting over its full height a section that is substantially V-shaped, having a base that is extended by two lateral flanks, there is provided an assembly of a plurality of fiber bundles that is mounted in at least one housing in the base, which assembly defines fiber content that varies along the full height of the housing.

Abstract: A method of making a structural part having a thermal protection barrier is provided. The method includes: making a fiber structure; introducing the fiber structure into an injection mold having first and second chambers, the fiber structure being placed in the second chamber; placing a movable separator partition between the first and second chambers; injecting a first resin into the first chamber; solidifying the resin injected into the first chamber; withdrawing the movable separator partition; injecting a second resin into the second chamber containing the fiber texture; and hardening the resins present in the first and second chambers of the injection mold in such a manner as to obtain a part having a structural core made of composite material constituted by fiber reinforcement densified by an organic matrix, and a thermal barrier constituted by a layer of hardened resin.

Abstract: A method of reinforcing a mechanical part, for example a turbine engine part, the part being made by assembling together two portions, the method including: inserting reinforcing mechanisms of elongate shape at least in part in at least one recess formed in one of the portions and opening out into a junction surface between the portions; and assembling the two portions together.

Abstract: A metal reinforcing piece for mounting on a leading edge or trailing edge of a composite blade for a turbine engine is made by shaping two metal sheets, positioning them on either side of a core, assembling the two sheets together around the core under a vacuum, shaping them on the core by hot isostatic compression, and cutting them to separate the reinforcing piece and release the core. A predetermined roughness is given to at least a portion of the surface of the core and is transferred to a corresponding portion of an inside surface of the reinforcing piece by the hot isostatic compression.

Abstract: A device for shaping a metal sheet by die stamping, the device including first and second trunnions configured to be fastened respectively to two opposite ends of a sheet, the sheet being configured to be shaped by die stamping, wherein the first and second trunnions define respective first and second bearing surfaces configured respectively to guide turning of the trunnions, the first bearing surface defining a peripheral groove around a pivot axis of the first trunnion while the second bearing surface is smooth along a pivot axis of the second trunnion.

Abstract: The invention provides a method of making a piece of metal reinforcement for mounting on the leading or trailing edge of a composite turbine engine blade, the method comprising the steps consisting in positioning two metal sheets (1) on either side of a core (2), in shaping the sheets (1) on the core (2) by hot isostatic compression, and in cutting the sheets (1) in order to separate the reinforcement along at least one line of cut and in order to release the core. The core (2) has projecting sacrificial zones (13), with the sheets (1) being cut along the sacrificial zones (13) without degrading the remainder of the core (2).

Abstract: A method for producing a metal reinforcement for protecting a leading edge of a compressor blade of composite, including: creating a core that has a shape of an internal cavity of the reinforcement; creating an insert made of an alloy of a hardness greater than that of the reinforcement; shaping sheet metal by stamping with the creation, upstream of the core, a cavity between the metal sheets, which cavity is configured to accept the insert, positioning the sheets around the core with the insert placed in the cavity and securing the assembly together; creating a vacuum and closing the assembly by welding; consolidation by hot isostatic pressing; cutting the assembly to extract the core and separate the reinforcement; creating an external profile of the reinforcement by a final machining operation that reveals a material of the insert.

Abstract: In structural reinforcement for a composite blade of a turbine engine, the reinforcement being for adhesively bonding to a leading edge of the blade and presenting over its full height a section that is substantially V-shaped, having a base that is extended by two lateral flanks, there is provided an assembly of a plurality of fiber bundles that is mounted in at least one housing in the base, which assembly defines fiber content that varies along the full height of the housing.

Abstract: A method of making a metal reinforcing member that is to be mounted on a leading edge or a trailing edge of a composite blade of a turbine engine, the method including: shaping two metal sheets, positioning them on either side of a core including at least one recess that is to form a mold for a spacer for positioning the reinforcing member, assembling them together under a vacuum, conforming them against the core by hot isostatic compression, and cutting them to separate the reinforcing member and release the core.

Abstract: The invention provides tooling and a method for hot forging pieces of sheet metal that are to form metal reinforcement mounted on the leading or trailing edge of a turbine engine blade, by means of bottom and top matrices each presenting a twisted elongate surface for use in shaping an initially plane piece of sheet metal, the shaping surface of the bottom matrix presenting a high portion, a low portion, and two end zones. The bottom matrix includes studs for positioning and guiding the piece, the studs being situated at the periphery of the corresponding shaping surface.

Abstract: A method of reinforcing a mechanical part, for example a turbine engine part, the part being made by assembling together two portions, the method including: inserting reinforcing mechanisms of elongate shape at least in part in at least one recess formed in one of the portions and opening out into a junction surface between the portions; and assembling the two portions together.

Abstract: A method of making a structural part having a thermal protection barrier, the method comprising at least the following steps: making a fiber structure; introducing the fiber structure into an injection mold having first and second chambers, the fiber structure being placed in the second chamber; placing a movable separator partition between the first and second chambers; injecting a first resin into the first chamber; solidifying the resin injected into the first chamber; withdrawing the movable separator partition; injecting a second resin into the second chamber containing the fiber texture; and hardening the resins present in the first and second chambers of the injection mold in such a manner as to obtain a part having a structural core made of composite material constituted by fiber reinforcement densified by an organic matrix, and a thermal barrier constituted by a layer of hardened resin.

Abstract: A metal reinforcing piece for mounting on a leading edge or trailing edge of a composite blade for a turbine engine is made by shaping two metal sheets, positioning them on either side of a core, assembling the two sheets together around the core under a vacuum, shaping them on the core by hot isostatic compression, and cutting them to separate the reinforcing piece and release the core. A predetermined roughness is given to at least a portion of the surface of the core and is transferred to a corresponding portion of an inside surface of the reinforcing piece by the hot isostatic compression.

Abstract: The invention provides a method of making a piece of metal reinforcement for mounting on the leading or trailing edge of a composite turbine engine blade, the method comprising the steps consisting in positioning two metal sheets (1) on either side of a core (2), in shaping the sheets (1) on the core (2) by hot isostatic compression, and in cutting the sheets (1) in order to separate the reinforcement along at least one line of cut and in order to release the core. The core (2) has projecting sacrificial zones (13), with the sheets (1) being cut along the sacrificial zones (13) without degrading the remainder of the core (2).

Abstract: A method of fabricating Inconel 718 type nickel superalloys. A last forging operation to which the nickel superalloy is subjected is such: that it takes place at a temperature lower than the ?-solvus temperature; that at all points of the nickel superalloy the local deformation ratio is not less than a minimum value; and that the nickel superalloy is not subjected to any heat treatment at a temperature higher than a threshold temperature equal to 750° C. after a quenching.

Abstract: The invention provides tooling and a method for hot forging pieces of sheet metal that are to form metal reinforcement mounted on the leading or trailing edge of a turbine engine blade, by means of bottom and top matrices each presenting a twisted elongate surface for use in shaping an initially plane piece of sheet metal, the shaping surface of the bottom matrix presenting a high portion, a low portion, and two end zones. The bottom matrix includes studs for positioning and guiding the piece, the studs being situated at the periphery of the corresponding shaping surface.