Investigation of Coriolis Effect on Vibration Characteristics of a Realistic Mistuned Bladed Disk

Author(s):  
Jianqiang Xin ◽  
Jianjun Wang

Mistuning, which refers to inevitable variations in blades properties, will change the vibration of bladed disks dramatically. Bladed disks are exposed to effects of forces caused by bladed disk rotation, such as centrifugal and Coriolis forces. However, there is little research on the vibration behavior of a realistic bladed disk with Coriolis force. An investigation of the speed effect, i.e., the effects of centrifugal and Coriolis forces, on the vibration characteristics of a realistic mistuned bladed disk model is presented in this paper. Finite element method (FEM) is used to obtain the system mass, stiffness and damping matrix. The effects of Coriolis force and centrifugal force on the modal frequency and harmonic response characteristics of tuned bladed disk are investigated first, then the modal localization and response characteristics of mistuned bladed disk are researched. This investigation indicates that: Coriolis force has efficient influences on the modal and response characteristics of a realistic mistuned bladed disk: it can both increase and decrease the localization of the mistuned bladed disk for different situations.

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xuanen Kan ◽  
Bo Zhao

To investigate the influence of Coriolis force on vibration characteristics of mistuned bladed disk, a bladed disk with 22 blades is employed and the effects of different rotational speeds and excitation engine orders on the maximum forced response are discussed considering the effects of Coriolis forces. The results show that if there are frequency veering regions, the largest split of double natural frequencies of each modal family considering the effects of Coriolis forces appears at frequency veering region. In addition, the amplitude magnification factor considering the Coriolis effects is increased by 1.02% compared to the system without considering the Coriolis effects as the rotating speed is 3000 rpm, while the amplitude magnification factor is increased by 2.76% as the rotating speed is 10000 rpm. The results indicate that the amplitude magnification factor may be moderately enhanced with the increasing of rotating speed. Moreover, the position of the maximum forced response of bladed disk may shift from one blade to another with the increasing of the rotational speed, when the effects of Coriolis forces are considered.


2009 ◽  
Vol 131 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hongbiao Yu ◽  
K. W. Wang

For bladed-disk assemblies in turbomachinery, the elements are often exposed to aerodynamic loadings, the so-called engine order excitations. It has been reported that such excitations could cause significant structural vibration. The vibration level could become even more excessive when the bladed disk is mistuned, and may cause fatigue damage to the engine components. To effectively suppress vibration in bladed disks, a piezoelectric transducer networking concept has been explored previously by the authors. While promising, the idea was developed based on a simplified bladed-disk model without considering the disk dynamics. To advance the state of the art, this research further extends the investigation with focus on new circuitry designs for a more sophisticated and realistic system model with the consideration of coupled-blade-disk dynamics. A novel multicircuit piezoelectric transducer network is synthesized and analyzed for multiple-harmonic vibration suppression of bladed disks. An optimal network is derived analytically. The performance of the network for bladed disks with random mistuning is examined through Monte Carlo simulation. The effects of variations (mistuning and detuning) in circuit parameters are also studied. A method to improve the system performance and robustness utilizing negative capacitance is discussed. Finally, experiments are carried out to demonstrate the vibration suppression capability of the proposed piezoelectric circuitry network.


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):  
Yasutomo Kaneko ◽  
Kazushi Mori ◽  
Hiroharu Ohyama

This paper presents a simple analysis method for predicting vibration response characteristics of a bladed disk with continuous ring type structure losing a shroud or a shroud and a stab between two blades. This loss introduces a mistuning of the system and the whole bladed disk model must be used to conduct the study. However, the vibration modes change regularly from a sine and a cosine mode, if the bladed disk consists of many blades. By utilizing this phenomenon, the simple formulation of vibration response of a bladed disk can be derived. Second, the parametric study on the vibration response characteristics of a bladed disk losing a shroud or a shroud and a stab is carried out extensively, utilizing the analysis method proposed here. From the calculated results, the vibration response characteristics of a bladed disk are clarified for both of resonant vibration and random vibration. Lastly, the results calculated by the simple analysis method proposed are compared with the results obtained from FEA (Finite Element Analysis) in order to verify the validity of the analysis method.


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):  
Yasutomu Kaneko ◽  
Toshio Watanabe ◽  
Tatsuya Furukawa ◽  
Saiji Washio

Abstract Although bladed disks of turbomachinery are nominally designed to be cyclically symmetric (tuned system), the vibration characteristics of individual blades on a disk differ slightly owing to manufacturing tolerance, deviation of material properties, wear during operation, etc. These small variations break cyclic symmetry and split eigenvalue pairs. Actual bladed disks with small variations are called mistuned systems. Many researchers have studied mistuning and the main conclusion is that while mistuning has an undesirable effect on forced response, it has a beneficial effect on blade flutter. Although mistuning phenomena have been studied since the 1980s, studies on forced response are mostly related to increase in the resonant amplitude due to harmonic excitation force. In addition, because few papers have treated the amplification factor expressed in terms of vibratory stress, the mistuning phenomena of bladed disks expressed in terms of vibratory stress are not fully understood. In this study, the mistuning effect expressed in terms of vibratory stress is examined using the reduced-order model SNM (Subset of Nominal Modes) without any assumptions. By comparing the amplification factor expressed in terms of displacement response with that expressed in terms of vibratory stress response, including synthesized stress (von Mises stress and principal stress), the mistuning phenomena expressed in terms of vibratory stress are clarified. The effect of bladed disk structure on amplification factor is examined in detail as well.


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):  
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):  
Hongbiao Yu ◽  
K. W. Wang

In this research, piezoelectric networking is investigated as an effective means for vibration suppression of mistuned bladed disk systems. Due to mistuning (i.e., imperfections in blade properties), bladed disks in turbo-machinery often suffer from vibration localization. In such cases, the vibration energy is confined to a small number of blades and forced response can be drastically increased when the structure is under engine order force excitation. To suppress the excessive vibration caused by localization, a piezoelectric networking concept has been proposed and analyzed for a multi-blade system in a previous study by the authors [1]. This research further extends the investigation with focus on circuitry design for a complex bladed disk model with the consideration of coupled blade-disk dynamics. A new multi-circuit piezoelectric network is designed and analyzed for multiple-harmonic vibration suppression of bladed disks. An optimal network is derived analytically based on system analysis. The performance of the network for bladed disks with random mistuning is examined using Monte Carlo simulation. The effects of variations (mistuning and detuning) in circuit parameters are also studied. Finally, a method to improve system performance and robustness is discussed.


1984 ◽  
Vol 106 (2) ◽  
pp. 218-223 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. C. MacBain ◽  
P. W. Whaley

The turbomachinery bladed disks used in today’s advanced turbine engines must meet strict standards with regard to aeroelastic stability and forced resonant response. One structural characteristic of bladed disks that can significantly impact both of these areas is that of bladed disk mistuning. Mistuning occurs when some circumferential asymmetry exists in the bladed disk. This asymmetry can be due to such things as mass or stiffness eccentricity or slight variations in the individual blade properties and occurs in all bladed disks to a greater or lesser extent. One important structural phenomenon resulting from mistuning is the splitting of the bladed disk’s diametral modes of vibration into “twin” or “dual” modes. The presence of dual mode characteristics in a bladed disk can significantly affect either or both of its aeroelastic stability and resonant response characteristics. The present paper, expanding upon the earlier works of Tobias and Arnold [1] and of Ewins [2] addresses the prediction of the maximum resonant response of a mistuned bladed disk having closely spaced dual modes as a function of mode mistuning and modal damping. A closed form expression is derived for the maximum forced resonant response. A discussion of mistune and damping characteristics of typical turbomachinery bladed disks is also presented.


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