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AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsFrank Worthoff, Christopher Charles Glynn, David William Crall, David Lawrence Bedel
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A method facilitates fabricating a gas turbine engine. The method comprises coupling an engine casing circumferentially around a gas turbine engine. The method also comprises coupling an engine containment wrap to the gas turbine engine, such that the containment wrap circumscribes at least a portion of the gas turbine engine casing, wherein the containment wrap includes a plurality of layers coupled together such that a first layer is formed from at least three sheets coupled together such that the first sheet fibers are oriented substantially in a first direction, such that the second sheet fibers are oriented in a second direction that is offset approximately forty-five degrees from the first sheet, and such that the third sheet fibers are oriented substantially parallel to the first direction, and wherein the plurality of first sheet fibers are aligned substantially axially with the respect to the turbine engine.
A method for fabricating a gas turbine engine, said method comprising:
A containment apparatus for a gas turbine engine including an engine casing, said containment apparatus comprising a first layer comprising a plurality of sheets that each comprise a plurality of fibers, a first of said plurality of sheets coupled to the gas turbine engine casing such that said first sheet circumscribes at least a portion of the casing and such that said first sheet plurality of fibers are aligned substantially axially with respect to said gas turbine engine, a second of said plurality of sheets coupled to said first sheet such that said second sheet plurality of fibers are aligned approximately forty-five degrees offset from said first sheet plurality of fibers, a third of said plurality of sheets coupled to said second sheet such that said third sheet plurality of fibers are aligned substantially parallel to said first sheet plurality of fibers.
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