EP0475316A1 - Vorrichtung zum Zurichten von Flächen an Gasturbinenschaufeln - Google Patents

Vorrichtung zum Zurichten von Flächen an Gasturbinenschaufeln Download PDF

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EP0475316A1
EP0475316A1 EP91115198A EP91115198A EP0475316A1 EP 0475316 A1 EP0475316 A1 EP 0475316A1 EP 91115198 A EP91115198 A EP 91115198A EP 91115198 A EP91115198 A EP 91115198A EP 0475316 A1 EP0475316 A1 EP 0475316A1
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Gary P. Apostolico
John P. Arrigoni
Willie Collins, Jr.
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B24—GRINDING; POLISHING
    • B24B—MACHINES, DEVICES, OR PROCESSES FOR GRINDING OR POLISHING; DRESSING OR CONDITIONING OF ABRADING SURFACES; FEEDING OF GRINDING, POLISHING, OR LAPPING AGENTS
    • B24B21/00—Machines or devices using grinding or polishing belts; Accessories therefor
    • B24B21/16—Machines or devices using grinding or polishing belts; Accessories therefor for grinding other surfaces of particular shape
    • B24B21/165—Machines or devices using grinding or polishing belts; Accessories therefor for grinding other surfaces of particular shape for vanes or blades of turbines, propellers, impellers, compressors and the like
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B24—GRINDING; POLISHING
    • B24B—MACHINES, DEVICES, OR PROCESSES FOR GRINDING OR POLISHING; DRESSING OR CONDITIONING OF ABRADING SURFACES; FEEDING OF GRINDING, POLISHING, OR LAPPING AGENTS
    • B24B19/00—Single-purpose machines or devices for particular grinding operations not covered by any other main group
    • B24B19/14—Single-purpose machines or devices for particular grinding operations not covered by any other main group for grinding turbine blades, propeller blades or the like
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B24—GRINDING; POLISHING
    • B24B—MACHINES, DEVICES, OR PROCESSES FOR GRINDING OR POLISHING; DRESSING OR CONDITIONING OF ABRADING SURFACES; FEEDING OF GRINDING, POLISHING, OR LAPPING AGENTS
    • B24B41/00—Component parts such as frames, beds, carriages, headstocks
    • B24B41/06—Work supports, e.g. adjustable steadies

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  • This invention relates to the abrasive machining of metal articles and more specifically to the precision abrasive machining required on gas turbine engine blade platforms during the final assembly process.
  • Gas turbine engines are widely used for aircraft propulsion and power generation.
  • Gas turbine engines include a compressor section, a combustor section, and a turbine section.
  • the compressor section of the engine compresses air to conditions of moderate temperature and pressure. Compressed air is mixed with fuel and burned in the combustor system and the products of combustion (hot high pressure gases) are expanded through the turbine section which extracts energy. A portion of the extracted energy is used to drive the compressor section.
  • the present invention is pertinent to certain compressor designs.
  • the typical compressor in a large gas turbine engine is an axial flow compressor.
  • Such a compressor includes multiple stages, each of which comprises a rotatable disk having radially extending airfoils mounted on its outer periphery.
  • the rotating disk/blade assembly is adapted to rotate between circular structures (stators) which include stationary airfoils which project radially inwardly, usually referred to as compressor vanes.
  • stators stationary airfoils which project radially inwardly
  • This invention relates generally to compressor blades and specifically to compressor blades which are mounted using what is termed a circumferential attachment scheme.
  • the older convention in the gas turbine engine field is to use individual slots in the disk periphery, one for each blade.
  • the newer circumferential attachment scheme employs a circumferential groove in the disk periphery. This is illustrated in Figure 1 wherein the periphery of the disk 1 is seen to have a shaped groove 2 with lips 3 which enclose a portion of the groove 2.
  • One blade 4 is shown in the groove.
  • Blade 4 includes airfoil portion 5 and platform portion 6.
  • Figure 2 shows how a plurality of compressor blades is mounted on a disc in accordance with Fig. 1
  • the present invention solves a problem associated with the assembly of circumferentially mounted compressor blade assemblies.
  • a typical compressor section will contain fifty to eighty compressor blades and problems arise related to the tolerances associated with the blades and the disk. It can be appreciated that it is desired to have a minimal gap or free play between the blades so as to prevent blade rubbing and interaction during engine operation. It will also be appreciated that a certain gap will usually be required in order to accommodate thermal growth which occurs during engine operation (the compressors are assembled at room temperature but may see operating temperatures of up to about 300°F). More specifically, the differential thermal expansion between the disk which may be a steel or nickel assembly and the compressor blades which are nickel or titanium must be accommodated.
  • Figure 2 illustrates how adjacent blades 7 fit together and interact, and it can be seen that the blade platforms each form a small section of an arc and that when all the blades are assembled, a complete circle is formed. It is required that adjacent blades touch over a surface rather than on a line. contact. This requires that the abutting surfaces of adjacent blades be parallel. It will be appreciated that the surfaces 8 of adjacent blades (when parallel) are radially disposed with respect to the center of rotation and that the angle ( ⁇ ) to which the abutting blade surfaces must be machined can be calculated based on the formula where N b is the number of blades and where the factor 2 originates because each blade has two surfaces between which the necessary angularity is divided.
  • the present invention includes a compact simple low-cost tool for precision machining compressor blade platforms. Machining of blade platforms is accomplished using a rotating cylindrical abrasive surface which may be, for example, an abrasive belt passing over a cylindrical wheel.
  • the turbine blade to be machined is held in space in required relationship and is passed over the cylindrical abrasive surface during which time the appropriate amounts of material are removed.
  • the compressor blade is held so that the platform surface to be machined lies in a plane which is tangent (or parallel to a tangent plane) to the cylindrical abrasive surface and the turbine blade is moved in this plane in such a fashion that it passes through the point of tangency between the plane and the cylindrical abrasive surface to cause material removal.
  • Means are provided to advance the turbine blade into this imaginary tangent surface in such a fashion that layers of material can be controllably removed from the blade platform edge.
  • Figure 1 is a cutaway schematic of a gas turbine engine compressor disk which employs the circumferential attachment scheme.
  • Figure 2 illustrates the geometric relationship between adjacent compressor blades.
  • FIG. 3 is a detailed drawing of a machine according to the present invention.
  • Figure 4 shows how a blade is mounted in a shuttle.
  • the present invention permits the precise removal of thin layers of material from the platform edges of gas turbine blades. Metal removal is accomplished by interaction of the blade platform edge with a moving abrasive surface.
  • the abrasive surface is at least partially cylindrical and preferably a right circular cylinder.
  • the cylindrical surface rotates about an axis. It will be appreciated that a plane which contains a line which is parallel to the axis of rotation can be caused to touch the cylindrical surface in a tangent fashion so that only a line on the cylindrical surface touches the plane.
  • the blade is mounted in such a fashion that the blade is angled with respect to the previously described plane of tangency, and the blade platform edge to be machined lies essentially in the plane of tangency.
  • the blade platform edge is moved in the plane of tangency so that it intersects the previously described tangent line. It is at this time that the metal removal occurs.
  • the present invention includes means for moving the blade platform edge in planes parallel to the plane of tangency so as to produce a controlled amount of interaction and controlled amount of metal removal.
  • the metal removal will usually be parallel layers since the compression blade platform was presumably initially produced with the desired angular relationship.
  • FIG. 3 An apparatus which illustrates one embodiment of the present invention is shown in Figure 3.
  • the entire apparatus is mounted on Base Plate 10 and the essential parts of the apparatus include electric motor 12 which moves abrasive belt 14 over rotatable wheel 16.
  • a movable plate 18 which is held parallel to base plate 10 and arranged to move parallel thereto by a parallelogram linkage which includes links 20.
  • Coil spring 22 urges movable plate 20 to move towards the abrasive belt but the movable plate 18 is restrained in its motion by adjustable stop screw 24.
  • Coil springs 26 extend between the base plate and the movable plate and serve to take free play out of the apparatus.
  • Attached to movable plate 18 are pillow blocks 28 through which passes rotatable shaft 30.
  • Rotatable shaft 30 is connected at one end to handwheel 32 and at the other end to shuttle holder 34.
  • the assembly comprising the handwheel 32, the rotatable shaft 30, and the shuttle holder 34, is freely rotatable, and upon rotation, the face 36 of the shuttle defines a plane which is tangent with the abrasive belt 14, along line 44, as it passes around wheel 16. This means that a plane perpendicular to shaft 30 can contain the axis of rotation of the moving wheel 16.
  • the compressor blade 40 to be machined or trimmed is clamped in shuttle 38 and shuttle 38 includes positive location features so that the blade 40 can be accurately located.
  • the plane 42 defined by the rotation of the shuttle holder 34 can move axially along the axis of the shaft 30 as the movable plate 18 is translated with respect to the base plate.
  • the plane 42 is translated axially it will intersect the abrasive sanding belt at the tangent line 44, permitting the platform edge to be abraded as handwheel 32 and shaft 30 and attached shuttle holder 34 are rotated causing the blade to move through an arc in plane 42.
  • Dial gage 46, 48 and 50 are provided to guide the operator in the removal of the appropriate amount of material from the blade platform edge.
  • Dial gage 46 is activated by direct contact with the blade platform edge which is being trimmed as handwheel 30 and shaft 32 are rotated.
  • Dial gage 46 measures the position of the blade platform edge being trimmed relative to the movable plate.
  • Dial gage 50 is also actuated by contact with the blade platform edge being trimmed but dial gage 50 is mounted on the fixed plate thereby giving of the relative position of the blade platform edge to the fixed plate.
  • Dial gage 48 measures the relative position between the fixed plate and the movable plate.
  • the dial gages provide information about the position of the blade platform edge and can be used to determine the amount of material removed.
  • the dial gages provide redundant information and not all dial gages are necessary but provide flexibility in the machine operation.
  • Figure 4 shows how a blade whose platform 6 is to be trimmed is mounted in a holder or shuttle 38 prior to being mounted in the apparatus of Fig. 3.
  • Portion 52 of surface 36 is tapered so as to generate the desired blade platform angle.
  • Shuttle surface 52 will fall in the tangent plane in which abrasive interaction occurs.

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Mechanical Engineering (AREA)
  • Finish Polishing, Edge Sharpening, And Grinding By Specific Grinding Devices (AREA)
  • Turbine Rotor Nozzle Sealing (AREA)
  • Structures Of Non-Positive Displacement Pumps (AREA)
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WO2016087215A1 (de) * 2014-12-04 2016-06-09 Siemens Aktiengesellschaft Verfahren zur beschichtung einer turbinenschaufel
CN107756173A (zh) * 2017-12-08 2018-03-06 博格华纳汽车零部件（江苏）有限公司 涡轴去毛刺设备
CN113290470A (zh) * 2021-06-17 2021-08-24 温州大学 一种可调节刀具打磨角度的叶盘叶片磨抛装置

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US2754636A (en) * 1955-02-24 1956-07-17 Orenda Engines Ltd Device for removing sharp edges from spaced projections
FR2488541A1 (fr) * 1980-08-13 1982-02-19 Koennemann Gerhard Machine de rectification a transfert de pieces
EP0128110A2 (de) * 1983-06-07 1984-12-12 United Technologies Corporation Verfahren und Einrichtung zum Schleifen von Turbinenläufern
US4860499A (en) * 1988-06-10 1989-08-29 General Motors Corporation Apparatus for measuring grinding forces on ceramic parts

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US2754636A (en) * 1955-02-24 1956-07-17 Orenda Engines Ltd Device for removing sharp edges from spaced projections
FR2488541A1 (fr) * 1980-08-13 1982-02-19 Koennemann Gerhard Machine de rectification a transfert de pieces
EP0128110A2 (de) * 1983-06-07 1984-12-12 United Technologies Corporation Verfahren und Einrichtung zum Schleifen von Turbinenläufern
US4860499A (en) * 1988-06-10 1989-08-29 General Motors Corporation Apparatus for measuring grinding forces on ceramic parts

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WO2016087215A1 (de) * 2014-12-04 2016-06-09 Siemens Aktiengesellschaft Verfahren zur beschichtung einer turbinenschaufel
CN107756173A (zh) * 2017-12-08 2018-03-06 博格华纳汽车零部件（江苏）有限公司 涡轴去毛刺设备
CN107756173B (zh) * 2017-12-08 2024-05-28 博格华纳汽车零部件(宁波)有限公司 涡轴去毛刺设备
CN113290470A (zh) * 2021-06-17 2021-08-24 温州大学 一种可调节刀具打磨角度的叶盘叶片磨抛装置

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