A centrifugal compressor assembly for a gas turbine engine includes an inducer section and an impeller section mounted for rotation about an axis. Because leading edges of the impeller blades are cambered, damper pads, extending perpendicular to the low pressure sides thereof also extend axially forward. Blades of the inducer section are indexed rotationally rearward of the impeller blades to improve the distribution of compression gases through the impeller section and high pressure surfaces of the inducer blades mate near their leading edges with outward surfaces of the damper pads. Because the pads and inducer blades vibrate at different frequencies, inducer blade vibrations that might otherwise cause fatigue are attenuated by contact with the damper pads. The damper pad arrangement thus permits the damping of vibrations in the inducer blades notwithstanding the indexed relationship between the inducer section and the impeller section.
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