VIRTUAL TURBOMACHINE BLADE CONTACT GAP INSPECTION

• Main Authors: CONNOR, James Ryan, ERNO, Jeffrey David, SALM, Jacob Andrew
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 22.06.2022
• Subjects: BLASTING; CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; ENGINE PLANTS IN GENERAL; HEATING; IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL; LIGHTING; MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; MEASURING; MEASURING ANGLES; MEASURING AREAS; MEASURING IRREGULARITIES OF SURFACES OR CONTOURS; MEASURING LENGTH, THICKNESS OR SIMILAR LINEARDIMENSIONS; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; NON-POSITIVE DISPLACEMENT MACHINES OR ENGINES, e.g. STEAMTURBINES; PHYSICS; STEAM ENGINES; TESTING; WEAPONS

A system and method for virtually inspecting contact gaps of a blade stage (154) of a turbomachine is disclosed. The system may include a digitizing device (130) for obtaining a three-dimensional model (132) of a shroud (134, 152) of each blade (140) of the blade stage (154). A computer system may i...