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Bristol Aeroplane Company Limited. Stress investigation. Second interim report on...

Catalogue reference: PA1716/5/11/2/379

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PA1716/5/11/2/379
Title
Bristol Aeroplane Company Limited. Stress investigation. Second interim report on the testing of B.OL.4. 1st 7 2nd stage LP critical disc assembly. CDD T.555/54.
Date
22 February 1954
Description

4096SR/4. Issued by Component Development Department. Aero Engine Division Bristol Aeroplane CO. Ltd. In view of previous tests on the B.OL.4 LP compressor 1st & 2nd stage coned assembly, which indicated that the rim of the 2nd stage disc was tipping excessively under centrifugal load, a re-designed spacer ring intended to give more support to the disc rim was incorporated in the 2nd build of the assembly. A series of spinning tests have now been acrried out to obtain dilation and axial displacement characteristics of the assembly under centrifugal loading

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Coventry Archives & Research Centre
Language
English
Physical description
1 Item
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https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/cc1321d5-825e-48af-8d93-622fa01f4044/

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Bristol Aeroplane Company Limited. Stress investigation. Second interim report on the testing of B.OL.4. 1st 7 2nd stage LP critical disc assembly. CDD T.555/54.