METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR RADIALLY COMPLIANT COMPONENT MOUNTING

• Main Authors: BULMAN DAVID EDWARD, SCHRODER MARK STEWART, STUMPF JAMES ANTHONY, DARKINS TOBY GEORGE, LIPINSKI JOHN JOSEPH
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 13.02.2008
• Subjects: AIR INTAKES FOR JET-PROPULSION PLANTS; BLASTING; COMBUSTION APPARATUS; COMBUSTION ENGINES; COMBUSTION PROCESSES; CONTROLLING FUEL SUPPLY IN AIR-BREATHING JET-PROPULSION PLANTS; ENGINE PLANTS IN GENERAL; GAS-TURBINE PLANTS; GENERATING COMBUSTION PRODUCTS OF HIGH PRESSURE OR HIGHVELOCITY, e.g. GAS-TURBINE COMBUSTION CHAMBERS; HEATING; HOT-GAS OR COMBUSTION-PRODUCT ENGINE PLANTS; INDEXING SCHEME FOR ASPECTS RELATING TONON-POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES OR ENGINES, GAS-TURBINES ORJET-PROPULSION PLANTS; INDEXING SCHEMES RELATING TO ENGINES OR PUMPS IN VARIOUSSUBCLASSES OF CLASSES F01-F04; LIGHTING; MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; NON-POSITIVE DISPLACEMENT MACHINES OR ENGINES, e.g. STEAMTURBINES; STEAM ENGINES; WEAPONS

A mounting assembly for a liner of a gas turbine engine combustor and a gas turbine engine are provided to reduce in the combustor pressure drop and increase net power output of a gas turbine. A mounting assembly(200) for a liner of a gas turbine engine combustor includes an inner ring(208) and a radially outer ring(226). The inner ring surrounds the radial outer surface of a liner(9), and includes a plurality of fingers(210) extended in the axial direction. The radially outer ring is joined to the inner ring via a plurality of spacers. The spacers are extended from the radially outer surface of the inner ring to the radially outer ring in a radial direction.