Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Rotating Bladed Disk Forced Response Using Underplatform Friction Dampers

2008 ◽  
Vol 130 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ibrahim A. Sever ◽  
Evgeny P. Petrov ◽  
David J. Ewins
Keyword(s):  
Measurement Techniques ◽  
Measured Data ◽  
Forced Response ◽  
Imperial College ◽  
Test Rig ◽  
Response Curves ◽  
Friction Dampers ◽  
Bladed Disk ◽  
Prediction Tools ◽  
Numerical Predictions

In this paper, we present a methodology and results from an experimental investigation of forced vibration response for a bladed disk with fitted underplatform “cottage-roof” friction dampers, together with the corresponding numerical predictions. A carefully designed and constructed rotating test rig is used to make precise measurements, which involve only the phenomena of interest. For this purpose, the measurement rig is operated under vacuum to eliminate aerodynamic effects on the rotating blisk and noncontact excitation and measurement techniques are employed so as not to modify the bladed disk dynamics. The experimental data measured are used for validation of multiharmonic balance-based prediction tools developed at the Imperial College. Predictions are carried out both with and without taking inherent mechanical mistuning into account, which is identified from measured data. Measured and predicted response curves are compared with each other and the degree of correlation is discussed.

Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Rotating Bladed Disk Forced Response Using Under-Platform Friction Dampers

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ibrahim A. Sever ◽  
Evgeny E. Petrov ◽  
David J. Ewins
Keyword(s):  
Harmonic Balance ◽  
Measurement Techniques ◽  
Measured Data ◽  
Forced Response ◽  
Test Rig ◽  
Response Curves ◽  
Friction Dampers ◽  
Bladed Disk ◽  
Prediction Tools ◽  
Numerical Predictions

In this paper we present a methodology and results from an experimental investigation of forced vibration response for a bladed disk with fitted under-platform ‘cottage-roof’ friction dampers, together with the corresponding numerical predictions. A carefully-designed and constructed rotating test rig is used to make precise measurements which involve only the phenomena of interest. For this purpose, the measurement rig is operated under vacuum to eliminate aerodynamic effects on the rotating blisk and non-contact excitation and measurement techniques are employed so as not to modify the bladed disk dynamics. The experimental data measured are used for validation of multi-harmonic balance-based prediction tools developed at Imperial College. Predictions are carried out both with and without taking inherent mechanical mistuning into account, which is identified from measured data. Measured and predicted response curves are compared with each other and the degree of correlation is discussed.

The Interaction Between Mistuning and Friction in the Forced Response of Bladed Disk Assemblies

1985 ◽  
Vol 107 (1) ◽  
pp. 205-211 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. H. Griffin ◽  
A. Sinha
Keyword(s):  
Gas Turbine ◽  
Turbine Blades ◽  
Forced Response ◽  
Turbine Engines ◽  
Gas Turbine Engines ◽  
Resonant Response ◽  
Friction Dampers ◽  
Bladed Disk ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Slip Force

This paper summarizes the results of an investigation to establish the impact of mistuning on the performance and design of blade-to-blade friction dampers of the type used to control the resonant response of turbine blades in gas turbine engines. In addition, it discusses the importance of friction slip force variations on the dynamic response of shrouded fan blades.

scholarly journals Test-Model Correlation of Dry-Friction Damping Phenomena in Aero-Engines

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Jean ◽  
C. Gibert ◽  
C. Dupont ◽  
J.-P. Lombard
Keyword(s):  
Dry Friction ◽  
Forced Response ◽  
Test Model ◽  
Friction Damping ◽  
Bladed Disks ◽  
Friction Dampers ◽  
Bladed Disk ◽  
Resonance Frequencies ◽  
Non Linear ◽  
Aero Engines

In order to control the risk of high cycle fatigue of bladed disks, it is important to predict precisely the vibration levels and to design damping solutions to attenuate them. Therefore, Snecma has made some efforts in the last years in order to characterize better the damping in aero-engines. Among the various damping sources, friction damping is particularly difficult to model due to its non-linear behaviour [1]. For that purpose, two methods based on multi-harmonic balance strategy have been especially developed for Snecma, dedicated to the study of the non-linear forced response of bladed disks. The first one enables to model the bladed disk equipped with dry-friction dampers [2], and the second one takes into account intrinsic friction located in disk-blade interface [3]. To validate both models experimentally, a test campaign has been carried out in a vacuum chamber on a rotating bladed disk excited by piezoelectric actuators. The blade shanks have been softened in order to increase friction effects. Experimental results show a regular and reproducible behaviour of the non-linear forced response, over various rotation speed and excitation levels. The contributions of friction dampers and friction in blade attachment have been decoupled thanks to glue applied in the blade root. Both friction phenomena that were observed experimentally at resonance of the blade first bending mode have been reproduced numerically. After updating modeling parameters, an acceptable correlation was found on resonance frequencies, amplitudes and damping levels over the full experimental setup range, which validates these numerical tools for their use in design process.

Effect of Involute Contact Ratio on Spur Gear Dynamics

1999 ◽  
Vol 121 (1) ◽  
pp. 112-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Kahraman ◽  
G. W. Blankenship
Keyword(s):  
Transmission Error ◽  
Spur Gear ◽  
Design Guidelines ◽  
Forced Response ◽  
Contact Ratio ◽  
Test Rig ◽  
Response Curves ◽  
Gear Mesh ◽  
Dynamic Transmission Error ◽  
Selection Of

The influence of involute contact ratio on the torsional vibration behavior of a spur gear pair is investigated experimentally by measuring the dynamic transmission error of several gear pairs using a specially designed gear test rig. Measured forced response curves are presented, and harmonic amplitudes of dynamic transmission error are compared above and below gear mesh resonances for both unmodified and modified gears having various involute contact ratio values. The influence of involute contact ratio on dynamic transmission error is quantified and a set of generalized, experimentally validated design guidelines for the proper selection of involute contact ratio to achieve quite gear systems is presented. A simplified analytical model is also proposed which accurately describes the effects of involute contact ratio on dynamic transmission error.

scholarly journals Darmstadt Rotor No. 2, III: Experimental Analysis of an Aft-Swept Axial Transonic Compressor Stage

2003 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 393-402 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephan Kablitz ◽  
Jörg Bergner ◽  
Dietmar K. Hennecke ◽  
Manfred Beversdorff ◽  
Richard Schodl
Keyword(s):  
Fluid Dynamics ◽  
Mechanical Properties ◽  
Gas Turbines ◽  
Measurement Techniques ◽  
Compressor Stage ◽  
New Materials ◽  
Test Rig ◽  
Transonic Compressor ◽  
Bladed Disk ◽  
University Of Technology

At Darmstadt University of Technology (Darmstadt, Germany), the Department of Gas Turbines and Flight Propulsion operates a single-stage transonic compressor test stand. Its main purpose is to provide a database for the validation of computational fluid dynamics codes. In addition, it serves as a testbed for new materials and also for the development of new measurement techniques. After setting up the test rig with a baseline rotor (Rotor No. 1), a titanium bladed disk with conventional radially stacked blade sections, a new rotor (Rotor No. 2) was designed, with the addition of considerable amounts of aft sweep and backward lean. The new rotor's flow field and mechanical properties were investigated by using various measurement techniques, including a laser-2-focus setup.

A Test Rig for Non-Contact Travelling Wave Excitation of a Bladed Disk With Underplatform Dampers

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Teresa Berruti ◽  
Christian M. Firrone ◽  
Muzio M. Gola
Keyword(s):  
Numerical Models ◽  
Experimental Tests ◽  
Calibration Procedure ◽  
Travelling Wave ◽  
Forced Response ◽  
Wave Excitation ◽  
Test Rig ◽  
Response Measurement ◽  
Static Test ◽  
Bladed Disk

The paper presents a static test rig called “Octopus” designed for the validation of numerical models aimed at calculating the nonlinear dynamic response of a bladed disk with underplatform dampers (UPDs). The test rig supports a bladed disk on a fixture and each UPD is pressed against the blade platforms by wires pulled by dead weights. Both excitation system and response measurement system are noncontacting. The paper features the design and the set-up of the noncontacting excitation generated by electromagnets placed under each blade. A travelling wave excitation is generated according to a desired engine order by shifting the phase of the harmonic force of one electromagnet with respect to the contiguous exciters. Since the friction phenomenon generated by UPDs introduces nonlinearities on the forced response, the amplitude of the exciting force must be kept constant at a known value on every blade during step-sine test to calculate Frequency Response Functions. The issue of the force control is therefore addressed since the performance of the electromagnet changes with frequency. The system calibration procedure and the estimated errors on the generated force are also presented. Examples of experimental tests that can be performed on a dummy integral bladed disk (blisk) mounted on the rig are described in the end.

Systematic Mistuning of Bladed Disk Assemblies With Friction Contacts

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Florian Go¨tting ◽  
Walter Sextro ◽  
Lars Panning ◽  
Karl Popp
Keyword(s):  
Monte Carlo ◽  
Weibull Distribution ◽  
Approximate Method ◽  
Natural Frequencies ◽  
Forced Response ◽  
Mean Values ◽  
Friction Dampers ◽  
System Parameters ◽  
Bladed Disk ◽  
Standard Deviations

In turbomachinery, friction contacts are widely used to reduce dynamic stresses in turbine blades in order to avoid expensive damages. As a result of energy dissipation in the friction contacts the blade vibration amplitudes are reduced. In case of so-called friction dampers, which are pressed on the platforms of the blades by centrifugal forces, the damping effect can be optimized by varying the damper mass. This optimization can be done by means of a simulation model applying the so-called component mode synthesis and the Harmonic Balance Method to reduce computation time. It is based on the modal description of each substructure. In a real turbine or compressor blading great differences in the magnitude of the individual blade amplitudes occur caused by unavoidable mistuning of all system parameters like contact parameters and natural frequencies of the blades. It may happen that most of the blades experience only small stresses whereas a few blades experience critical stresses. Therefore, it is necessary to consider mistuning for all system parameters to simulate the forced response of bladed disk assemblies with friction contacts. For a mistuned bladed disk the complete system has to be modeled to calculate the dynamic response. In practice, usually the standard deviations instead of the distributions of the system parameters are known. Therefore, Monte-Carlo simulations are necessary to calculate the forced response of the blades for given mean values and standard deviations of the system parameters. To reduce the computational time, an approximate method has been developed and extended for small and moderate standard deviations of the system parameters to calculate the distribution and the envelopes of the frequency response functions for statistically varying system parameters, in the following called statistical mistuning. The approximate method is based on a sensitivity analysis and the assumption of a Weibull distribution of the vibration amplitudes of the blades. Both, the approximate method and the assumption of a Weibull distribution of the vibration amplitudes are validated by Monte-Carlo simulations. By these investigations the influence of different arrangements of the system parameters for given mean values and standard deviations of the vibration amplitudes of the blades can be determined, too. For the present investigations only a small influence of the arrangement of blades with respect to their natural frequencies has been observed. On the other hand, an intentional mistuning of the damper masses and the natural frequencies of the blades in a systematic way, in the following called systematic mistuning, can be investigated to reduce the amplitudes of the system. The simulation results of a systematic mistuning has been validated by a test rig with a rotating bladed disk assembly with friction dampers. The investigations show a good agreement between the simulations and the measurements but only a slight decrease of the maximum amplitudes in case of a systematic mistuning.

Forced Response of Mistuned Bladed Disks in Gas Flow: A Comparative Study of Predictions and Full-Scale Experimental Results

2010 ◽  
Vol 132 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Evgeny Petrov ◽  
Luca Di Mare ◽  
Holger Hennings ◽  
Robert Elliott
Keyword(s):  
Data Exchange ◽  
Gas Flow ◽  
Numerical Study ◽  
Forced Response ◽  
Full Scale ◽  
Response Analysis ◽  
Test Rig ◽  
Bladed Disk ◽  
Resonance Frequencies ◽  
Underplatform Damper

An integrated experimental-numerical study of forced response for a mistuned bladed disk has been performed. A full chain for the predictive forced response analysis has been developed including data exchange between the computational fluid dynamics code and a code for the prediction of the nonlinear forced response for a bladed disk. The experimental measurements are performed at a full-scale single stage test rig with excitation by aerodynamic forces from gas flow. The numerical modeling approaches and the test rig setup are discussed. Comparison of experimentally measured and predicted values of blade resonance frequencies and response levels for a mistuned bladed disk without dampers is performed. A good correspondence between frequencies at which individual blades have maximum response levels is achieved. The effects of structural damping and underplatform damper parameters on amplitudes and resonance frequencies of the bladed disk are explored. It is shown that the underplatform damper significantly reduces scatters in values of the individual blade frequencies and maximum forced response levels.

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