OPTIMIZATION OF POLISHING TITANIUM ALLOY BLADES OF GAS TURBINE ENGINES
In the paper there is shown a purposeful function of technological cost price optimization at polishing blades of gas turbine engines (GTE). For the optimization a new polishing method is of- fered. A comparative computation of the purposeful function for the existing method of blade polish- ing and a new method - polishing an endless polishing belt of emery paper is presented. It is proved that the application of a new polishing process should allow decreasing a technological cost price of a process ensuring a constant quality of a blade profile of GTEs.