11-04-2013 дата публикации
Номер: US20130086805A1
A rotor disc, such as one made of a damage intolerant material or other material sensitive to stress concentrations, has at least one balancing assembly which includes a plurality of circumferentially spaced-apart sacrificial protrusions projecting between adjacent stress-relieving slots. Selective material removal is permitted from the rotor disc, while managing stress concentrations in the rotor disc created by such material removal, such that the rotor disc may be balanced without detrimentally affecting its service life. 1. A method of manufacturing a turbomachine rotor disc , the method comprising:providing the turbomachine rotor disc with at least one generally annular appendage coaxially disposed with reference to a central rotation axis of the turbomachine rotor disc; andmachining a plurality of spaced-apart and substantially radially-extending slots in a free end of the appendage, the slots delimiting a plurality of sacrificial protrusions from which material can be removed during balancing.2. The method as defined in claim 1 , wherein the spaced-apart slots are circumferentially equally spaced on the free end of the appendage.3. The method as defined in claim 1 , wherein the turbomachine rotor disc comprises a plurality of blade receiving slots on an outer periphery thereof.4. A method for gas turbine rotor disc balancing comprising the steps of:providing a rotor disc having at least one balancing assembly provided substantially coaxially with reference a rotation axis of the rotor disc, the balancing assembly having a plurality of spaced-apart sacrificial protrusions extending between adjacent stress-relieving slots, bottoms of said adjacent slots defining a base end of the protrusions, each protrusion extending from its base end to a free end, the slots provided with a shape providing a stress concentration below a crack propagation threshold in a region of the slot bottoms;determining an imbalance to the rotor disc; and thenremedying the imbalance by ...
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