Patent ID: 11959395
Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
Field: Engines, pumps, turbines (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC F | IPC F

Claim 0:
1. A rotor blade system comprising:
a rotor; and
a plurality of blades coupled to the rotor, the plurality of blades arranged in an airfoil distribution pattern, the airfoil distribution pattern comprising one or more baseline blades including a first sheath having a first chord length and a first thickness and one or more intentionally mistuned blades including a second sheath having a second chord length and a second thickness, the one or more intentionally mistuned blades including an intentional mistuning feature that includes at least one of a varied second chord length of the second sheath relative to the first chord length of the first sheath or a varied second thickness of the second sheath relative to the first thickness of the first sheath.