A Method for Forced Response Analysis of Mistuned Bladed Disks With Aerodynamic Effects Included

Author(s):  
E. P. Petrov

A method has been developed for high-accuracy analysis of forced response levels for mistuned bladed disks vibrating in gas flow. Aerodynamic damping, the interaction of vibrating blades through gas flow, and the effects of structural and aerodynamic mistuning are included in the bladed disk model. The method is applicable to cases of high mechanical coupling of blade vibration through a flexible disk and, possibly shrouds, to cases with stiff disks and low mechanical coupling. The interaction of different families of bladed disk modes is included in the analysis providing the capability of analyzing bladed disks with pronounced frequency veering effects. The method allows the use of industrial-size sector models of bladed disks for analysis of forced response of a mistuned structure. The frequency response function matrix of a structurally mistuned bladed disk is derived with aerodynamic forces included. A new phenomenon of reducing bladed disk forced response by mistuning to levels that are several times lower than those of their tuned counterparts is revealed and explained.

Author(s):  
E. P. Petrov

A method has been developed for high-accuracy analysis of forced response levels for mistuned bladed discs vibrating in gas flow. Aerodynamic damping, the interaction of vibrating blades through gas flow and the effects of structural and aerodynamic mistuning are included in the bladed disc model. The method is applicable to cases of high mechanical coupling of blade vibration through a flexible disc and, possibly shrouds, and to cases with stiff discs and low mechanical coupling. The interaction of different families of bladed disc modes is included in the analysis providing the capability of analysing bladed discs with pronounced frequency veering effects. The method allows the use of industrial-size sector models of bladed discs for analysis of forced response of a mistuned structure. The frequency response function matrix of a structurally mistuned bladed disc is derived with aerodynamic forces included. A new phenomenon of reducing bladed disc forced response by mistuning to levels that are several times lower than those of their tuned counterparts is revealed and explained.


Author(s):  
Adam Koscso ◽  
E. P. Petrov

Abstract One of the major sources of the damping of the forced vibration for bladed disk structures is the micro-slip motion at the contact interfaces of blade-disk joints. In this paper, the modeling strategies of nonlinear contact interactions at blade roots are examined using high-fidelity modelling of bladed disk assemblies and the nonlinear contact interactions at blade-disk contact patches. The analysis is performed in the frequency domain using multiharmonic harmonic balance method and analytically formulated node-to-node contact elements modelling frictional and gap nonlinear interactions. The effect of the number, location and distribution of nonlinear contact elements are analyzed using cyclically symmetric bladed disks. The possibility of using the number of the contact elements noticeably smaller than the total number of nodes in the finite element mesh created at the contact interface for the high-fidelity bladed disk model is demonstrated. The parameters for the modeling of the root damping are analysed for tuned and mistuned bladed disks. The geometric shapes of blade roots and corresponding slots in disks cannot be manufactured perfectly and there is inevitable root joint geometry variability within the manufacturing tolerances. Based on these tolerances, the extreme cases of the geometry variation are defined and the assessment of the possible effects of the root geometry variation on the nonlinear forced response are performed based on a set of these extreme cases.


Author(s):  
Changbo Yu ◽  
Jianjun Wang ◽  
Qihan Li

Random mistuning always exists in bladed disk structures. The maximum blade forced response amplitudes are often much larger than those of their perfectly tuned counterparts, which leads to eventual failure via high cycle fatigue (HCF). Therefore, it is of great importance to predict and, ultimately, to reduce the blade forced response levels as a result of random mistuning. In this paper, intentional mistuning is introduced into a simplified 12-bladed disk model by varying the stiffness of the blades in periodic harmonic patterns. The individual and combined effects of intentional mistuning, coupling and damping are examined in the absence and presence of random mistuning through numerical study. It is found that there is some threshold value of intentional mistuning and coupling that leads to maximum mistuning effects and certain relations among intentional mistuning strength, integer harmonics, coupling and damping can suppress the response levels of mistuned bladed disks, which provides useful guidelines for safe and reliable designs of bladed disk systems.


Author(s):  
Yasutomo Kaneko ◽  
Kazushi Mori ◽  
Hiroharu Ooyama

Although bladed disks of turbomachinery are nominally designed to be cyclically symmetric (tuned system), the vibration characteristics of all blades on a disk are slightly different due to the manufacturing tolerance, the deviation of the material property, the wear during operation, and so on. These small variations break the cyclic symmetry, and split the eigenvalue pairs. The actual bladed disks with the small variations are referred to a mistuned system. In the forced response of a mistuned bladed disk, the responses of all blades become different, and the response of a certain blade may become extremely large due to the split of the duplicated eigenvalues, the distortion of the vibration modes, and so on. On the other hand, many researchers suggest that the mistuning suppresses the blade flutter, because the complete travelling wave mode is not formed in a disk. In other words, the main conclusions of researches on mistuning are that while mistuning has an undesirable effect on the forced response, it has a beneficial (stabilizing) effect on the blade flutter (the self-excited vibration). Although such mistuning phenomena of bladed disks have been studied since 1980s, almost all studies focused on the amplification factor of the displacement response, and few studies researched the amplification factor of the vibratory stress response. In this study, first, the frequency response analysis of the mistuned simple bladed disk consisting of flat plates is carried out. Comparing the amplification factor of the displacement response with that of the vibratory stress response, the amplification factor expressed by the vibratory stress is studied in detail. Second, the mistuning analysis of the actual bladed disk used in a steam turbine is carried out. From these results, the mistuning effect expressed by the vibratory stress is clarified.


2013 ◽  
Vol 135 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Fang ◽  
O. G. McGee ◽  
Y. El Aini

This paper draws upon the theoretical basis and applicability of the three-dimensional (3-D) reduced-order spectral-based “meshless” energy technology presented in a companion paper (McGee et al., 2013, “A Reduced-Order Meshless Energy Model for the Vibrations of Mistuned Bladed Disks—Part I: Theoretical Basis,” ASME J. Turbomach., to be published) to predict free and forced responses of bladed disks comprised of randomly mistuned blades integrally attached to a flexible disk. The 3-D reduced-order spectral-based model employed is an alternative choice in the computational modeling landscape of bladed disks, such as conventionally-used finite element methods and component mode synthesis techniques, and even emerging element-free Hamiltonian–Galerkin, Petrov–Galerkin, boundary integral, and kernel-particle methods. This is because continuum-based modeling of a full disk annulus of mistuned blades is, at present, a steep task using these latter approaches for modal-type mistuning and/or rogue blade failure analysis. Hence, a considerably simplified and idealized bladed disk of 20 randomly mistuned blades mounted to a flexible disk was created and modeled not only to analyze its free and forced 3-D responses, but also to compare the predictive capability of the present reduced-order spectral-based “meshless” technology to general-purpose finite element procedures widely-used in industry practice. To benchmark future development of reduced-order technologies of turbomachinery mechanics analysts may use the present 3-D findings of the idealized 20-bladed disk as a new standard test model. Application of the 3-D reduced-order spectral-based “meshless” technology to an industry integrally-bladed rotor, having all of its blades modally mistuned, is also offered, where reasonably sufficient upper-bounds on the exact free and forced 3-D responses are predicted. These predictions expound new solutions of 3-D vibration effects of modal mistuning strength and pattern, interblade mechanical coupling, and localized modes on the free and forced response amplitudes.


Author(s):  
Chaoping Zang ◽  
Yuanqiu Tan ◽  
E. P. Petrov

A new method is developed for the forced response analysis of mistuned bladed disks manufactured from anisotropic materials and mistuned by different orientations of material anisotropy axes. The method uses (i) sector finite element (FE) models of anisotropic bladed disks and (ii) FE models of single blades and allows the calculation of displacements and stresses in a mistuned assembly. A high-fidelity reduction approach is proposed which ensures high-accuracy modeling by introducing an enhanced reduction basis. The reduction basis includes the modal properties of specially selected blades and bladed disks. The technique for the choice of the reduction basis has been developed, which provides the required accuracy while keeping the computation expense acceptable. An approach for effective modeling of anisotropy-mistuned bladed disk without a need to create a FE model for each mistuning pattern is developed. The approach is aimed at fast statistical analysis based on Monte Carlo simulations. All components of the methodology for anisotropy-mistuned bladed disks are demonstrated on the analysis of models of practical bladed disks. Effects of anisotropy mistuning on forced response levels are explored.


Author(s):  
Adam Koscso ◽  
E. P. Petrov

Abstract A new method has been developed for the analysis of nonlinear forced response of bladed disks mistuned by blade anisotropy scatter and for the forced response sensitivity to blade material anisotropy orientations. The approach allows for the calculation of bladed disks with nonlinear friction contact interfaces using the multi-harmonic balance method. The method uses efficient high-accuracy model reduction method for the minimization of the computational effort while providing required accuracy. The capabilities of the developed methods are validated and demonstrated using a two-blade model. A thorough study of the influence of the material anisotropy mistuning and its sensitivity on the characteristics of the forced response is carried out using finite element modes of anisotropy mistuned realistic bladed disk with nonlinear friction joints of blade roots and shroud contacts. The dependency of the nonlinear forced response on excitation level and contact pressure values has been carried out for anisotropy mistuned bladed disks.


Author(s):  
Bing Xiao ◽  
Alejandro J. Rivas-Guerra ◽  
Marc P. Mignolet

This paper focuses on the identification/prediction of the blade exhibiting the largest response in mistuned bladed disks. This information is very important in experimental/testing efforts as it permits the most effective positioning of a few gages to capture the maximum response on the disk. In computational statistical analyses, knowing the highest responding blade is also quite valuable as it may lead to computational savings in the determination of the maximum response. Different strategies are proposed here for the experimental and computational contexts. In the former situation, mistuning is typically unknown but only one or a few disks must be considered. The proposed solution is then to estimate the mistuned blade properties and to rely on this identified bladed disk model to predict the blades that are likely to exhibit the largest responses through exact, full disk solutions. On the contrary, in computational statistical analyses, mistuning is specified but a potentially large number of disks must be analyzed and it is desired to bypass the ensemble of full disk solutions. Accordingly, a novel, computationally very efficient algorithm is proposed for a preliminary estimation of the forced response of mistuned disks from which the blades that are likely to exhibit the largest responses can be predicted. Examples of application on single- and two-degree-of-freedom per blade models and a reduced order model of a blisk demonstrate the reliability of the proposed strategies.


Author(s):  
M. Ersin Yu¨mer ◽  
Ender Cig˘erog˘lu ◽  
H. Nevzat O¨zgu¨ven

Mistuning affects forced response of bladed disks drastically; therefore, its identification plays an essential role in the forced response analysis of realistic bladed disk assemblies. Forced response analysis of mistuned bladed disk assemblies has drawn wide attention of researchers but there are a very limited number of studies dealing with identification of mistuning, especially if the component under consideration is a blisk (integrally bladed disk). This paper presents two new methods to identify mistuning of a rotor from the assembly modes via utilizing neural networks. It is assumed that a tuned mathematical model of the rotor under consideration is readily available, which is always the case for today’s realistic bladed disk assemblies. In the first method, a data set of selected mode shapes and natural frequencies is created by a number of simulations performed by mistuning the tuned mathematical model randomly. A neural network created by considering the number of modes, is then trained with this data set. Upon training the network, it is used to identify mistuning of the rotor from measured data. The second method further improves the first one by using it as starting point of an optimization routine and carries out an optimization to identify mistuning. To carry out identification analysis by means of the proposed methods, there are no limitations on the number of modes or natural frequencies to be used. Thus, they are suitable for incomplete data as well. Moreover, since system modes are used rather than blade alone counterparts, the techniques are ready to be used for analysis of blisks. Case studies are performed to demonstrate the capabilities of the new methods, using two different mathematical models to create training data sets; a lumped-parameter model and a relatively realistic reduced order model. Throughout the case studies, the effects of using incomplete mode families and random errors in assembly modes are investigated.


2019 ◽  
Vol 141 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Koscso ◽  
Evgeny Petrov

AbstractA new method has been developed for the analysis of nonlinear forced response of bladed disks mistuned by blade anisotropy scatter and for the forced response sensitivity to blade material anisotropy orientations. The approach allows for the calculation of bladed disks with nonlinear friction contact interfaces using the multiharmonic balance method. The method uses efficient high-accuracy model reduction method for the minimization of the computational effort while providing required accuracy. The capabilities of the developed methods are validated and demonstrated using a two-blade model. A thorough study of the influence of the material anisotropy mistuning and its sensitivity on the characteristics of the forced response is carried out using finite element (FE) modes of anisotropy mistuned realistic bladed disk with nonlinear friction joints of blade roots and shroud contacts. The dependency of the nonlinear forced response on excitation level and contact pressure values has been carried out for anisotropy mistuned bladed disks.


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