Patent 12066187 was granted and assigned to General Electric on August, 2024 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A combustor includes a skeleton mesh structure having a plurality of structural elements configured to mesh together to form the skeleton mesh structure. The combustor also includes an inner liner and an outer liner mounted to the skeleton mesh structure to define a combustion chamber. The inner liner includes a plurality of inner planks mounted to an inner side of the inner liner and a plurality of outer planks mounted to an outer side of the inner liner. The outer liner includes a plurality of inner planks mounted to an inner side of the outer liner and a plurality of outer planks mounted to the outer side of the outer liner.