A turbocharger includes a turbine housing that is a cast component, a turbine scroll passage, a discharge port, and a discharge port defining member. The turbine scroll passage surrounds the circumference of a turbine chamber defined in the turbine housing and the circumference of the turbine chamber. Exhaust gas that has passed through the turbine chamber is conducted to the discharge port. The discharge port defining member constitutes a wall surface of the discharge port. The discharge port defining member includes a tubular main body wall and an outer circumferential edge. The main body wall constitutes a wall surface of the discharge port. The outer circumferential edge extends from the distal end of the main body wall and outward in the radial direction of the impeller shaft. The outer circumferential edge is fixed between the turbine housing and a downstream exhaust pipe, which is connected to the discharge port.

A composite aerofoil may include an aerofoil body defining a leading edge and a trailing edge, wherein the body comprises a composite material including a plurality of relatively higher-modulus reinforcement elements, a plurality of relatively tougher polymer-based reinforcement elements, and a matrix material substantially encapsulating the plurality of relatively higher-modulus reinforcement elements and the plurality of relatively tougher polymer-based reinforcement elements. The plurality of relatively higher-modulus reinforcement elements are different from the plurality of relatively tougher polymer-based reinforcement elements. The disclosure also describes techniques for forming composite aerofoils.

A turbine engine rotor lock, in particular for a turbojet fan, adapted to retain a blade axially relative to a disk of the rotor, the lock including a composite body including a woven fiber structure embedded in a matrix; and a damper pad made of elastomer and fastened to the composite body.

A method of assembly for a gas turbine engine according to an example of the present disclosure includes, among other things, positioning an array of airfoils about an outer periphery of a hub, the hub being rotatable about an engine longitudinal axis of a gas turbine engine, the hub including a plurality of flanges, and each one of the airfoils including an airfoil section extending from a root section. An array of platforms are positioned about the outer periphery of the hub, each of the platforms including one or more slots defined by a plurality of platform flanges, and including the one or more slots receiving a respective one of the flanges of the hub. A plurality of retention pins are moved relative to the array of airfoils such each one of the retention pins extends through the flanges of the hub and through the plurality of platform flanges of a respective one of the platforms to mechanically attach a respective one of the platforms and the root section of a respective one of the airfoils to the hub. At least one of the airfoils and the platforms includes a plurality of composite layers that define an internal cavity, and includes a lattice structure in the internal cavity that extends between the plurality of composite layers.

Methods for manufacturing a turbomachine composite part, such as a fan blade, are provided. The composite part has a fibrous structure with a three-dimensional fibrous preform coated with a surface fibrous web, and which is embedded in a polymer matrix The methods include: forming the surface web in a cavity of a mold in order to shape it, wetting and forming the preform on the surface web in order to shape it, and closing the mold, drying the fibrous structure, and injecting thermosetting resin into the mold in order to form said polymer matrix. The surface web is wetted before and/or during the forming thereof.

A method for manufacturing a composite-material casing for a gas turbine, includes producing by three-dimensional weaving a fiber texture in the form of a strip, winding of the fiber texture around several superimposed turns on a mandrel with a profile corresponding to that of the casing to be manufactured in order to obtain a fiber preform of a shape corresponding to that of the casing to be manufactured, and densifying the fiber preform by a matrix. During the winding of the last turn of the fiber texture on the mandrel, at least one stiffening element is interposed between the before-last turn and the last turn of the fiber texture. The stiffening element projects over the outer surface of the before-last turn of the fiber texture. The stiffening element has an axial section of omega-type shape.

A turbine vane comprising ceramic matrix composite materials. The turbine vane includes an vane support core, an airfoil, and a pair of end walls that are spaced apart from one another to define a gas path. The turbine vane is formed from a plurality of ceramic plies or preforms that are infiltrated with ceramic matrix material to form a one-piece ceramic matrix composite turbine vane.

A method of forming a ceramic matrix composite airfoil includes forming a fibrous ceramic preform by laying up a plurality of plies to form a hollow core cavity, overwrapping the plurality of plies of the core cavity with a first overwrap layer, weaving together a tows of first free portion and tows of a second free portion of the first overwrap layer to form a cross brace, overwrapping the plurality of plies of the core cavity and the first overwrap layer with a second overwrap layer, and consolidating the first free portion and the second free portion of the first overwrap layer and a third free portion and a fourth free portion of the second overwrap layer to form a trailing edge.

Systems and methods for a turbo blanket. Specifically, embodiments are related to a flexible turbo blanket with an alloy layer, insulation layer, and mesh screen layer.

A fibrous texture intended to form the fibrous reinforcement of a turbomachine blade made of composite material including a fibrous reinforcement densified by a matrix, wherein the fibrous texture includes an area of reduced stiffness including warp yarns or strands made of second fibers having a second elongation at break greater than the first elongation at break, the area of reduced stiffness extending in the longitudinal direction from the stilt area and up to a height less than or equal to 30% of the height of the blade, extending in the transverse direction between a first area and a second area, the first area extending over a first length from a first edge of the texture intended to form a leading edge, and the second area extending over a second length from a second edge of the texture intended to form a trailing edge.