Simulations: new “worlds” for learning?

A shaft of a turbo jet carrying the rotor of a turbine and receiving apparatus which applies to the shaft an axial thrust which is greater than that of the turbine and directed in the opposite direction, and supported in bearings of which one, acting as the thrust bearing, is located adjacent to the turbine and is mounted in a support which is translatorily movable and is held in abutment in the direction of the thrust of the receiving apparatus in such a way that in the case of a fracture of the shaft, the bearing is displaced by the thrust of the turbine until the rotor blades engage frictionally the stator vanes, thereby braking the turbine and preventing the risk of a disintegration of the turbine.