Conical tip shroud fillet for a turbine bucket
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsDaniel David Snook, Peter Gaines Cleveland
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AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsDaniel David Snook, Peter Gaines Cleveland
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A turbine bucket airfoil has a conical fillet about the intersection of the airfoil tip and tip shroud having a nominal profile in accordance with coordinate values of X and Y, offset 1, offset 2 and Rho set forth in Table I. The shape parameters of offset 1, offset 2 and Rho define the configuration of the fillet at the specified X and Y locations about the fillet to provide a fillet configuration accommodating high localized stresses. The fillet shape may be parabolic, elliptical or hyperbolic as a function of the value of the shape parameter ratio of D1 D1 + D2 at each X, Y location where D1 is a distance between an intermediate point along a chord between edge points determined by offsets O1 and O2 and a shoulder point on the fillet surface and D2 is a distance between the shoulder point and an apex location at the intersection of the airfoil tip and tip shroud.
A turbine bucket having an airfoil, an airfoil tip, a tip shroud and a fillet about an intersection of said airfoil tip and said tip shroud, said fillet having a nominal profile substantially in accordance with coordinate values of X and Y, offset 1, offset 2 and Rho set forth in Table I wherein X and Y define in inches discrete apex locations about the intersection of the airfoil tip and tip shroud, offset 1 and offset 2 are distances in inches perpendicular to the airfoil surface and tip shroud undersurface, respectively, at each respective X, Y location projected along the airfoil surface and tip shroud undersurface and which offsets intersect with one another such that normal projections from the intersection of said offsets onto the tip shroud undersurface and airfoil surface, respectively, define edge points which, upon connection about the respective tip shroud and airfoil, define edges of the fillet, and Rho is a non-dimensional shape parameter ratio of
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