In a structure for cooling a constituent member of a gas turbine engine using a working gas of the gas turbine engine as a cooling medium, on a wall surface of a passage wall formed from a part of the constituent member and facing a cooling medium passage through which the cooling medium flows, a recess formed on the wall surface of the passage wall and a projection formed on at least a part of a peripheral edge of the recess are provided.

One exemplary embodiment of this disclosure relates to a method for coating a substrate. The method includes heating a substrate, depositing a coating on the heated substrate, and forming an expansion slit in the coating.

A flexible coupling for a fluid-carrying pipe extends in use between a first pipe portion and a second pipe portion. The flexible coupling comprises a tessellation of first regions and second regions in which the first regions have higher stiffness than the second regions.

A blade airfoil for an internally cooled turbine rotor blade has suction-side and pressure-side side walls, which, extending from a common leading edge to a common trailing edge and in a span direction from a root-side end to a tip-side end, at least partially enclose a cavity. The tip-side end includes a tip wall which delimits the cavity at the tip side. At least one cooling hole for the discharge of cooling fluid that can be caused to flow in the interior is provided. In the cavity, at least one rib which extends from the tip wall in the direction of the root-side end projects from the inner surface, surrounding the rib, of the suction-side side wall and/or from the inner surface of the pressure-side side wall. An inflow-side end, in relation to the cooling fluid, of the at least one cooling hole opens out laterally in the respective rib.

A process of producing a ceramic matrix composite component. The process includes positioning a plurality of ceramic matrix composite plies on top of one another and forming a cavity therein. At least a portion of the cavity includes a terminal diameter sufficiently small to permit infiltration of a densifying material. The plurality of ceramic matrix composite plies are densified to form a densified body. The densifying results in the portion of the cavity including the terminal diameter being filled with densifying material and the cavity is present in the densified body. A ceramic matrix composite having cavities therein is also disclosed.

Aspects of the disclosure are directed to a method for processing a component that includes a substrate and a coating coupled to the substrate, the method comprising: applying a laser beam to the coating in a first stage, the first stage characterized by a first number of pulses of the laser beam and a first offset corresponding to a focal point of the laser beam coinciding with an exterior surface of the coating, and applying the laser beam to the coating in a second stage, the second stage characterized by a second number of pulses of the laser beam and a second offset corresponding to the focal point of the laser beam being located within a span of the substrate.

A conduction riser is additively manufactured onto thin metal parts, the conduction riser extends in a build direction of the thin metal part and traverses a surface of the thin metal part as the conduction riser extends in the build direction. The conduction riser transfers heat from the upper layers of the additively manufactured part during manufacturing to prevent thermal deflection of the part during the manufacturing process.

A gas turbine engine component has an engine component body and at least one hole formed within the engine component body and extends between a hole inlet and a hole outlet. The hole has a first portion with a first roughness and a second portion having a second roughness that is less than the first roughness. The first portion is upstream of the second portion. A gas turbine engine and a method of forming a cooling hole are also disclosed.

A system and method for performing laser induced breakdown spectroscopy during laser ablation of a coating, such as a TBC coating, deposited on a surface of a component, particularly to enable obtained spectrometry signals of the ablated coating to be used to monitor and control the laser ablation removal process in real-time. The system includes a laser energy source and a scan head interconnected with the laser energy source to receive a laser beam therefrom and then direct the laser beam onto the surface of the coated component. Collection optics collect radiation emitted from a laser-induced plasma generated by the laser beam at the surface of the coated component. The system is further equipped to spectrally analyze the radiation and generate a feedback signal for control and optimization of one or more operational parameters of the laser energy source in real-time.

A laser hole drilling system includes a laser source that generates a laser beam along an optical axis; a spherical lens along the optical axis downstream of the laser source; and a control system in communication with the spherical lens and the laser source, the control system operable to locate the spherical lens with respect to the laser source to produce a light distribution in polar coordinates of a real portion of the Fourier Transform to generate an asymmetric teardrop shaped energy distribution at a focal plane.