The turbine does not have a rotor hub; it instead features an open generator, which looks like a bicycle wheel. Each of the three pitching blades is mounted to an “A-frame” blade support structure ...
Mechanical Dynamics and Analysis (MD&A) was retained by a utility to perform a stub-shaft repair of a generator rotor collector-end shaft. The customer reported that the generator rotor had suffered a ...
Gas turbine engines of tanks, which are land-based derivatives of aero-turboshaft engines, share core gas generator rotor structures but face significantly higher external impact loads due to combat ...