Blade with internal rib having corrugated surface(s)
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsJeffrey Clarence Jones, Adam John Fredmonski
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AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsJeffrey Clarence Jones, Adam John Fredmonski
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A blade includes an airfoil body defined by a concave pressure side outer wall and a convex suction side outer wall that connect along leading and trailing edges and, therebetween, form a radially extending chamber for receiving the flow of a coolant, the airfoil body having an outer surface and an inner surface facing the radially extending chamber. A first corrugated surface is on at least a portion of the outer surface of the airfoil body; and a first rib partitions the radially extending chamber, the first rib including a first side and an opposing second side. A second corrugated surface is on at least a portion of at least one of the first and second sides of the first rib.
A blade comprising:
A blade comprising:
A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing code representative of a blade, the blade physically generated upon execution of the code by a computerized additive manufacturing system, the code comprising:
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