Gas turbine engine axial stator compressor
View Patent ↗The invention relates to an axial compressor stator for a gas turbine, the stator having a rigid, external, annular frame and axially juxtaposed rings configured within the frame and bearing annuli of stationary vanes. The rings are defined by arcuate segments affixed to the frame. The inside walls of the arcuate segments externally define the aerodynamic conduit for the compressed gaseous fluid. The arcuate segments are brazed segments that include a honeycomb component sandwiched between an inner sheetmetal bounding the aerodynamic conduit and an outer sheetmetal. The outer sheetmetal solely connects the arcuate segments to the frame.
1. An axial compressor stator for a gas turbine, including an outer, rigid, annular frame, axially juxtaposed rings which are configured inside the frame and which support annuli of stationary vanes, the rings having arcuate segments affixed to the frame, the inside walls of the segments externally defining the aerodynamic conduit for the compressed gas fluid, wherein
the arcuate segments are brazed arcuate segments defined by a honeycomb component sandwiched between an inner sheetmetal bounding the aerodynamic conduit and an outer sheetmetal, the outer sheetmetal solely connecting the arcuate segments to the frame.
2. The compressor stator as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the outer sheetmetal is affixed by a plurality of bolts to the frame.
3. The compressor stator as claimed in claim 2 , wherein each outer sheetmetal is affixed by a plurality of bolts at its downstream end and at its upstream end to the frame.
4. The compressor stator as claimed in claim 3 , wherein the outer sheetmetal is spaced apart from the frame outside is upstream ends and its downstream ends.
5. The compressor stator as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the stationary vanes are imbedded into the inner sheetmetal and into the outer sheetmetal.