Prevention of high cycle fatigue failures of blades caused by increased level of vibrational stresses is important problem in engine design and development. Different types of dampers are usually installed under the blade platforms in the region between the shanks of adjacent blades are usually used to reduce the vibrational stresses in the turbine blades. The action of these dampers is based on the vibrational energy dissipation by the dry friction forces arising due to the relative displacement of the contacting surfaces of the damper and the blade. Adoption of a reliable choice of damper design mass and stiffness at the design stage of the aircraft engines requires an experimentally validated estimation of its damping efficiency and its influence on the blade frequency characteristics. The dampers need to be tested under conditions that are maximally close to the operational conditions.
This paper presents an analysis of the stress gauging results of a turbine wheel with box-type dampers of various mass. The tests were carried out on a dynamic bench where resonance oscillations of a stage for a given mode were excited by one of the harmonics to a given rotational speed under the corresponding forces pressing the dampers onto the blade platform. An estimation of the damper efficiency in a wider range of pressing forces was also obtained by conducting the laboratory tests using on a specially designed vibration unit that simulates the dampers effect on a set of three blades.
Numerical analysis of the damper mass and stiffness influence on the frequency and damping characteristics of a real turbine wheel was performed. Obtained experimental data and the GAP model of contact interaction of the insert with blades were used in the MSC. Nastran software package. Analysis showed a satisfactory correlation between the calculated and experimental estimates of the decrease in resonant stresses and resonance frequency changes when the dampers are inserted.
The results presented here confirm the possibility of increasing the reliability of the choice of mass and stiffness of turbine blade dampers at the design stage.
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