Stress Analysis of Gas Turbine Propeller Using Finite Elements Method

Abstract

Gas turbine has been used in many modern applications such as electric power plants and airplane engines. Turbine propellers are usually under high load and high temperature therefore; it is necessary to study their behavior under loads before catastrophic failure. This work aims to investigate numerically the behavior of gas turbine propeller fabricated of three materials that were stainless steel, E-glass fiber and carbon fiber under various loads (2000, 4000, 6000) N to get the total deformation, maximum strain. Maximum stress and shear stress. The simulation was achieved using solidwork 2016 and the analysis was done using ANSYS 2020. The results showed that stainless steel showed less deformation than the other two materials.