Method of manufacturing a wall structure and a machining tool
AssigneeVolvo Aero Corporation
InventorsJan Lundgren, Mats Hallovist
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Abstract
A method of manufacturing a wall structure includes producing at least one elongated web in a workpiece by feeding a machining tool along the workpiece, wherein the machining tool simultaneously machines a first side surface of the web, a second side surface of the web and a top surface of the web.
Claims10
A method of manufacturing a wall structure for a rocket engine nozzle comprising the steps of providing a workpiece with a cylindrical shape having a circular cross section which cross section diameter varies in an axial direction of the workpiece, producing a plurality of spaced elongated webs in the workpiece by feeding a machining tool along the workpiece, wherein said plurality of spaced elongated webs are produced by indexing said machine tool in relation to the workpiece, wherein the webs are produced so that they extend in a diverging mariller from a first end of the work piece to a second end of the work piece and which webs are distributed around the circumference of the workpiece, wherein in a step of producing one elongated web the machining tool simultaneously machines a first side surface of the web, a second side surface of the web and a top surface (20) of the web.
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