Abstract: Modular display system having LED pixels and lenses aligned to the LED's to increase intensity, increase view angle and increase overall viewability. Louvers align along the LED's and lenses to shade the LED's and lenses from ambient light to increase viewability. Modular display panels which contain the LED's, lenses, louvers and other associated components are accessible from the front and back for changeover or repair.

Abstract: Modular display system having LED pixels and lenses aligned to the LED's to increase intensity, increase view angle and increase overall viewability. Louvers align along the LED's and lenses to shade the LED's and lenses from ambient light to increase viewability. Modular display panels which contain the LED's, lenses, louvers and other associated components are accessible from the front and back for changeover or repair.

Abstract: In a steam turbine rotor wheel and bucket dovetail joint construction wherein the wheel dovetail includes a plurality of radially adjacent hooks interconnected by respective necks, each having an upper and lower fillet pair of substantially identical fillet, an improvement wherein each upper fillet has a compound radius.

Abstract: In a steam turbine rotor wheel and bucket dovetail joint construction wherein the wheel dovetail includes three radially aligned hooks each interconnected by a neck having an upper and lower fillet, an improvement includes redesigned fillet radii which, in a first embodiment, include the upper fillet having a radius greater than the lower fillet radius. In certain embodiments, the upper fillet may have a radius twice that of the lower fillet. In other embodiments, the radii in both the upper and lower fillets have been enlarged.

Abstract: A dovetail joint between a rotor wheel and a bucket includes a male dovetail component on the rotor wheel and a female dovetail component in the bucket, wherein the male dovetail component includes four laterally projecting hooks, each hook from an uppermost hook to a lowermost hook decreasing in radial thickness and increasing in axial length. Each hook has a substantially flat top surface to effectively increase the average thickness, and a neck between the respective hooks having enlarged fillets. The new dovetail joint reduces peak stresses so as to avoid or minimize stress corrosion cracking.

Abstract: A method for determining the portion of life expended for a turbomachine component during a predetermined interval uses the rate at which creep strain accumulates to provide an indication of the portion of life expended.