Patent ID: 8753073

Claim:
A turbine shroud apparatus surrounding a rotor carrying an array of turbine blades for a gas turbine engine having a centerline axis, comprising: (a) an annular turbine case; (b) an annular turbine shroud fixedly mounted within and directly abutting the turbine case, comprising a plurality of arcuate shroud segments, each shroud segment comprising a low-ductility material and configured as a hollow box having opposed forward and aft walls, and opposed inner and outer walls, each of the walls extending between opposite end faces, wherein the inner wall of each shroud segment defines an arcuate flowpath surface exposed to and closely surrounding the turbine blades, to thereby define an outer radial flowpath boundary for a hot gas stream flowing through the rotor, and wherein the shroud segments are disposed with mating end faces in close proximity so as to define end gaps between each facing pair of end faces; and (c) a seal assembly disposed in each of the end gaps, the seal assembly comprising one or more spline seals which are arranged to define a continuous sealing surface around the perimeters of the mating end faces.