Recent content by kkaliber44

...Last things first - my question still relates to making sure which surfaces in a jet engine really contribute to producing thrust. As for "thrust bearings" - sure they are there to take out the axial force on the shafts. Can you, however, confirm that the thrust bearings see an axial...

About the shaft not being balanced - do you know this for a fact? If you only look at the pressure balance of the airfoils, I agree, the shaft would experience a net forward axial force; There are, however, pressure balance seals/cavities/pistons inside the jet engine's guts (closer to the...

Being a design engineer I can tell you that the design intent is to have that radius tangent to the straight lines. Otherwise you could just do a tiny edge break with the big radius and e.g. you would not be able to assemble this part later, because you wouldn't have enough clearance at that...

First of all it is so great to stumble upon this forum. Especially that I am looking for the answer to the same question, which ank_gl is trying to find. Second of all I am faced with the same amount of misunderstanding that ank_gl is finding within this thread. Google and people I ask keep...