Annular heat shield assembly for combustor

An annular heat shield arrangement of a combustor, the combustor comprising an inner liner and an outer liner, each of the inner liner and the outer liner comprising annular heat shield assemblies, any one of the annular heat shield assemblies comprising:

• heat shield segments circumferentially distributed around an axis of the annular heat shield assembly, any one of the heat shield segments extending circumferentially from a first lateral edge face to a second lateral edge face circumferentially spaced apart from the first lateral edge, the first lateral edge face and the second lateral edge face extending axially from an upstream edge to a downstream edge, a first overlap joint portion being defined at the first lateral edge face, a second overlap joint portion being defined at the second lateral edge face,
• wherein the first overlap joint portion of a first of the heat shield segments and the second overlap joint portion of a second of the heat shield segments are complementary to form an overlap joint extending from the upstream edge to the downstream edge between the first and the second of the heat shield segments,
• wherein the first and the second of the heat shield segments define one of a plurality of pairs of the heat shield segments of one of the annular heat shield assemblies, a first set of the plurality of pairs forming a part of the inner liner and a second set the plurality of pairs forming a part of the outer liner,
• wherein the first set of the plurality of pairs and the second set of the plurality of pairs of the annular heat shield assemblies are connected to one another at an annular overlap between two of the annular heat shield assemblies, and
• wherein the overlap joint on the first set of the plurality of pairs is circumferentially offset from the overlap joint on the second set of the plurality of pairs.