Measurement installation for blade failure testing in a turbomachine

• US 9,909,444 B2
• Filed: 10/11/2013
• Issued: 03/06/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 10/12/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Safran Aircraft Engine Company
• Original Assignee: Snecma (Safran SA)
• Inventors: Rousselin, Stephane, Adnot, Jean-Francois, Marcellin, Patrick
• Primary Examiner(s): Younger, Sean J
• Application Number:
  US14/051,749
• Publication Number:
  US 20140105727A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,607 Days
• Field of Search: 415118, 416 1, 416 61
• CPC Class Codes: F01D 21/003 Arrangements for testing or measuring for measuring vibrations G01H
• CPC Class Codes: F01D 5/02 Blade-carrying members, e.g. rotors rotors of non-bladed type F01D1/34; stators F01D9/00 ; selecting particular materials F01D5/28

Abstract

A turbomachine fitted with a device for gathering the information recorded during operation of the former by a strain gauge positioned on a fan blade borne by a fan disc of the turbomachine, the device including a hollow cylindrical pipe positioned inside one of the rotating shafts of the turbomachine in order to guide at least one wire for transmitting this information, wherein the device further includes a part for attaching the pipe to the rotating shaft.

Claims

1. A turbomachine comprising:

a device for gathering information recorded during operation of the turbomachine by a strain gauge positioned on a fan blade borne by a fan disc of said turbomachine,

said device comprising

a hollow cylindrical pipe positioned inside a rotating shaft of said turbomachine in order to guide at least one wire for transmitting said information,

an attachment part for attaching said pipe to said rotating shaft, and

a guiding part for guiding said at least one wire between said strain gauge and said pipe, said guiding part comprising a radial portion extending radially outside said rotating shaft and an axial cylindrical portion which is disposed radially inside said rotating shaft and which extends upstream of the attachment part,

wherein the attachment part bears against an attachment flange provided at a first end of said axial cylindrical portion of said guiding part, and

wherein said radial portion forms a disc-shaped radial portion which extends from a second end of said axial cylindrical portion in a direction of an axial end of the fan disc.

2. The turbomachine according to claim 1, wherein said guiding part comprising a region, for gathering excess lengths of said at least one wire, formed by the axial cylindrical portion and at least one wall extending in the radial direction.

3. The turbomachine according to claim 2, wherein the region is arranged axially upstream of the attachment part.

4. The turbomachine according to claim 1, wherein the fan disc bearing the fan blades is a disc-ring.

5. The turbomachine according to claim 4, wherein the rotating shaft is a low-pressure shaft, said rotating shaft extending axially in the upstream direction until said rotating shaft is below said disc-ring.

6. The turbomachine according to claim 1, wherein said attachment part attaches to said rotating shaft by axially gripping splines which extend radially inside said rotating shaft.

7. The turbomachine according to Claim 1, wherein said disc-shaped radial portion extends towards an inside of said axial cylindrical portion via a radial extension which forms a wall of said region for gathering excess lengths of wire.

8. The turbomachine according to Claim 1, wherein the disc-shaped radial portion of the guiding part comprises holes which allow the at least one wire to pass from one face of said fan disc to an opposite face of said fan disc.

9. The turbomachine according to claim 1, wherein said axial cylindrical portion extends axially outside said rotating shaft.

11. The turbomachine according to claim 1, wherein said at least one wire transmits data from said strain gauge to a system for recording measurements made with said strain gauge on the fan blade, wherein said system is outside the turbomachine.

10. A turbomachine comprising:

a device for gathering information recorded during operation of the turbomachine by a strain gauge positioned on a fan blade borne by a fan disc of said turbomachine,

said device comprising

a hollow cylindrical pipe positioned inside a rotating shaft of said turbomachine in order to guide at least one wire for transmitting said information,

an attachment part for attaching said pipe to said rotating shaft, and

a guiding part for guiding said at least one wire between said strain gauge and said pipe, said guiding part comprising a radial portion extending radially outside said rotating shaft,

wherein said guiding part comprises an axial portion extending axially outside said rotating shaft, and

wherein said axial portion is positioned between said radial portion and said rotating shaft such that said at least one wire is guided by said guiding part successively from said fan blade, through said radial portion, through said axial portion and finally to said pipe inside said rotating shaft.

12. A turbomachine comprising:

a device for gathering information recorded during operation of the turbomachine by a strain gauge positioned on a fan blade borne by a fan disc of said turbomachine,

said device comprising

a hollow cylindrical pipe positioned inside a rotating shaft of said turbomachine in order to guide at least one wire for transmitting said information,

an attachment part for attaching said pipe to said rotating shaft, and

a guiding part for guiding said at least one wire between said strain gauge and said pipe, said guiding part comprising a radial portion and an axial portion disposed radially inside of said rotating shaft,

wherein said rotating shaft includes a spline provided on an internal face of said rotating shaft at an upstream end of said rotating shaft, and

wherein said attachment part comprises a support part having a cylindrical shape and including a radial rib, said support part being fastened radially between said pipe and said rotating shaft such that the radial rib abuts an upstream portion of the spline, and a radial extension of a bolt passing through said support part abuts a downstream portion of the spline so that said pipe is secured in rotation with said rotating shaft.

13. The turbomachine according to claim 12, wherein said guiding part comprises a region, for gathering excess lengths of said at least one wire, formed by a wall extending in the axial direction and at least one wall extending in the radial direction.