Rotor blade support structure

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9677406-B2
Application number	US-201214241819-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 16, 2012
Priority date	Oct 20, 2011
Publication date	Jun 13, 2017
Grant date	Jun 13, 2017

Abstract

The purpose of the invention is to provide a rotor blade support structure, wherein the concentration of stress near the rotor blade groove in which the rotor blade is embedded is limited even as increase in production cost is limited. A rotor blade support structure, in which rotor blades ( 30 ) are embedded in rotor blade grooves ( 10 ) provided on a rotor disc ( 1 ), wherein the rotor blade groove ( 10 ) is provided with circular direction grooves ( 13 ) that extend more in the circular direction of the rotor disc than upward from the bottom ( 14 ), and shaft center direction grooves ( 15 ) that are provided on the end faces ( 1 a, 1 b ) of the rotor disc ( 1 ) in the center of the bottom ( 14 ) in the circular direction of the rotor disc and that extend towards the rotor disc shaft center.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A rotor blade support structure in which a rotor blade is embedded in a rotor blade groove provided in a rotor disc, the rotor blade groove comprising:
a circumferential groove portion in a bottom portion of the rotor blade groove, the circumferential groove portion extending in a rotor disc circumferential direction beyond a portion above the bottom portion; and
a radial groove portion which has an arc-shaped end, is provided in a center portion in the rotor disc circumferential direction, extends in a rotor disc radial direction, and has a shape which includes a corner portion formed by the bottom portion of the rotor blade groove and an end surface portion of the rotor disc and in which only part of the bottom portion and the end surface portion is cut away, in such a way as to distribute stress generated by transient thermal stress together with the circumferential groove portion.

2. The rotor blade support structure according to claim 1 , wherein w′/W is within a range of 0.49 to 1.0, where 2 W represents a size of the bottom portion of the rotor blade groove in the rotor disc circumferential direction and 2 w ′ represents the size of the radial groove portion in the rotor disc circumferential direction.

3. The rotor blade support structure according to claim 2 , wherein an angle of the radial groove portion with respect to an end surface direction of the rotor disc in the bottom portion of the rotor blade groove is within a range of 20° to 50°.

4. The rotor blade support structure according to claim 3 , wherein d/w′ is within a range of 1.0 to 1.4, where d represents a size of the radial groove portion in the rotor disc radial direction.

5. The rotor blade support structure according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a plurality rotor blade grooves;
wherein a plurality of the radial groove portions are formed in each of the plurality of rotor blade grooves.

6. The rotor blade support structure according to claim 1 ,
wherein the rotor disc includes end surface portions, and
the radial groove portion is formed in each of the end surface portions.

Assignees

• Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Sys

Inventors

• Hirata Tomoyuki
• Katou Eigo
• Atsumi Hidekatsu

Classifications

• F01D5/3007 Primary

  of axial insertion type · CPC title

• F05D2260/941

  particularly aimed at mechanical or thermal stress reduction · CPC title