CPC F01D 5/282 (2013.01) [F05D 2220/36 (2013.01); F05D 2300/6034 (2013.01)] | 18 Claims |
1. A fan blade comprising:
interleaved plies, where interleaving comprises distributing wide plies within narrow plies and short plies within long plies in the fan blade; wherein the interleaving is defined as an actual intersection of a plurality of plies of different variable dimensions that extend in the chordwise direction with another plurality of plies of different variable dimensions that extend in the spanwise direction such that their respective longitudinal axes intersect with one another at angles of 5 to 175 degrees.
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