Unit cell structures including stiffening patterns
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsApostolos Karafillis, Jonathan H. Kerner, Eric Dean Jorgensen, Leonardo Ajdelsztajn
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AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsApostolos Karafillis, Jonathan H. Kerner, Eric Dean Jorgensen, Leonardo Ajdelsztajn
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Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for a structure of an engine component, including a first plurality of unit cells offset from a neutral plane in a first direction, a second plurality of unit cells offset from the neutral plane in a second direction, a plurality of nodes joining ones of the first plurality of unit cells and ones of the second plurality of unit cells, wherein the first plurality of unit cells and the second plurality of unit cells are arranged in pairs such that ones of the first plurality of unit cells are laterally adjacent to and interconnected with ones of the second plurality of unit cells, and wherein the structure is a stiffened structure.
A structure of an engine component, comprising:
A structure surrounding a gas turbine, comprising:
A unit cell structure of an aircraft component, comprising;
An additively manufactured monolithic isogrid structure, comprising:
An integral additively manufactured grid structure, comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.