Analysis of Forced Response for Bladed Disks Mistuned by Material Anisotropy Orientation Scatters

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.


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.


Author(s):  
Yongliang Duan ◽  
Chaoping Zang ◽  
E. P. Petrov

This paper is focused on the analysis of effects of mistuning on the forced response of gas turbine engine bladed disks vibrating in the frequency ranges corresponding to higher modes. For high modes considered here, the blade aerofoils are deformed during vibrations and the blade mode shapes differ significantly from beam mode shapes. A model reduction technique is developed for the computationally efficient and accurate analysis of forced response for bladed disks vibrating in high-frequency ranges. The high-fidelity finite element (FE) model of a tuned bladed disk sector is used to provide primary information about dynamic properties of a bladed disk, and the blade mistuning is modeled by specially defined mistuning matrices. The forced response displacement and stress amplitude levels are studied. The effects of different types of mistuning are examined, and the existence of high amplifications of mistuned forced response levels is shown for high-mode vibrations: in some cases, the resonance peak response of a tuned structure can be lower than out-of-resonance amplitudes of its mistuned counterpart.


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):  
Jean de Cazenove ◽  
Scott Cogan ◽  
Moustapha Mbaye

Integrally bladed rotors dynamic properties are known to be particularly sensitive to small geometric discrepancies due to the machining process or in-service wear. In this context, it is straightforward that setting up accurate numerical models which take into account real mistuning patterns is a key issue in the prediction of forced response amplitudes under operating conditions. The present study focuses on an experimental bladed disk. Due to strong inter-blade coupling, the geometric mistuning is supposed to result in severe mode localization for the studied bladed disk, thus emphasizing the need of a realistic, predictive finite-element model. This paper describes the procedure which leads to the development and validation of a high-fidelity FE model for a realistic bladed disk, based on coordinate measurements by means of fringe projection. After giving an overview of the coordinate measurement and model building for the studied bladed disk, the comparison of cantilevered-blade and full disk calculated eigenfrequencies to individual blade and full disk in quasi-vacuum measurements are presented.


Author(s):  
E. P. Petrov

A generic method for analysis of nonlinear forced response for bladed disks with friction dampers of different designs has been developed. The method uses explicit finite element modeling of dampers, which allows accurate description of flexibility and, for the first time, dynamic properties of dampers of different designs in multiharmonic analysis of bladed disks. Large-scale finite element damper and bladed disk models containing 104−106 degrees of freedom can be used. These models, together with detailed description of contact interactions over contact interface areas, allow for any level of refinement required for modeling of elastic damper bodies and for modeling of friction contact interactions. Numerical studies of realistic bladed disks have been performed with three different types of underplatform dampers: (i) a “cottage-roof” (also called “wedge”) damper, (ii) seal wire damper, and (iii) a strip damper. Effects of contact interface parameters and excitation levels on damping properties of the dampers and forced response are extensively explored.


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):  
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.


2005 ◽  
Vol 127 (1) ◽  
pp. 128-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. P. Petrov ◽  
D. J. Ewins

An efficient method for analysis of nonlinear vibrations of mistuned bladed disk assemblies has been developed. This development has facilitated the use of large-scale finite element models for realistic bladed disks, used hitherto in analysis of linear vibration, to be extended for the analysis of nonlinear multiharmonic vibration. The new method is based on a technique for the exact condensation of nonlinear finite element models of mistuned bladed disks. The model condensation allows the size of the nonlinear equations to be reduced to the number of degrees of freedom where nonlinear interaction forces are applied. The analysis of nonlinear forced response for simplified and realistic models of mistuned bladed disks has been performed. For a practical high-pressure bladed turbine disk, several types of nonlinear forced response have been considered, including mistuning by (i) scatter of underplatform dampers, (ii) shroud gap scatter, and (iii) blade frequency scatter in the presence of nonlinear shroud interactions.


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