Exhaust casing for a turbomachine
View Patent ↗A turbomachine exhaust casing with connection roots between the structural arms of the casing and the annular endplates of the hub of the casing, each of said the roots having a profile that is optimized so as to reduce the level of stress in the connection portions, and thus increase the lifetime of the exhaust casing.
1. An exhaust casing for a turbomachine, the casing comprising:
a hub centered on an axis and carrying, on each of its upstream and downstream faces, an annular endplate that is coaxial with the hub;
an outer shroud coaxial with the hub; and
a plurality of arms interconnecting said hub and said shroud, each arm presenting opposite first and second side faces in which the hub and the outer shroud are spaced apart radially by a length written L; and
in which, in a radial section plane, the first side face of each arm forms an acute angle with the tangent to the outer periphery of each endplate, said angle lying in the range 60° to 85°;
wherein the first side face of each arm is connected to each endplate by a connection root of profile, in a radial section plane, that is defined by a spline passing via N control points, N being an integer greater than or equal to 10, these N control points being defined as follows:
let O be the point of intersection in said radial section plane between the straight line extending the first side face and the outer periphery of an endplate;
let there be a first straight-line segment starting from the point O and following the straight line extending said first side face in said radial plane, this segment being of length written 1 lying in the range 3% to 15% of the length L, and this segment being subdivided into N equal segments by N+1 points written H( 1 ), H( 2 ), . . . , H(N+1), the point H(N+1) coinciding with the point O;
let there be a second straight-line segment starting from the point O and following the tangent at the point O to the outer periphery of said endplate in said radial plane, said segment having a length written 2 lying in the range 25% to 50% of 1 , and said segment being subdivided into N equal segments by N+1 points written B( 1 ), B( 2 ), . . . , B(N+1), the point B(N+1) being the furthest from the point O, and
let D( 1 ), D( 2 ), . . . , D(N+1) be the N+1 straight lines respectively interconnecting the points B( 1 ) to H( 1 ), B( 2 ) to H( 2 ), . . . , and B(N+1) to H(N+1);
said N control points are the points of intersection between D( 1 ) and D( 2 ), between D( 2 ) and D( 3 ), . . . , and between D(N) and D(N+1).
2. A turbomachine including an exhaust casing according to claim 1 .