Vibration reliability analysis for aeroengine compressor blade based on support vector machine response surface method

To ameliorate reliability analysis efficiency for aeroengine components, such as compressor blade, support vector machine response surface method(SRSM) is proposed. SRSM integrates the advantages of support vector machine(SVM) and traditional response surface method(RSM), and utilizes experimental samples to construct a suitable response surface function(RSF) to replace the complicated and abstract finite element model. Moreover, the randomness of material parameters, structural dimension and operating condition are considered during extracting data so that the response surface function is more agreeable to the practical model. The results indicate that based on the same experimental data, SRSM has come closer than RSM reliability to approximating Monte Carlo method(MCM); while SRSM(17.296 s) needs far less running time than MCM(10958 s) and RSM(9840 s). Therefore,under the same simulation conditions, SRSM has the largest analysis efficiency, and can be considered a feasible and valid method to analyze structural reliability.

Investigation of Microstructure of Fine Grain Cast IN718 Compressor Blade from Abroad

Fine grain cast IN718 compressor blade form abroad has been analyzed. There is no columnar grain, uniform equiaxed grain, less segregation and no porosity cast defect in essence in the section of blade body with fine grain, in which grain size is about ASTM 2 ～4. Its microstructure is approachable to that of forging. It is hopeful to achieve the goal of replacing forging by casting.

Vibration Modal Analysis of Compressor Blade based on ANSYS

Compressor is an important part of aero engine. In the environment of high temperature and high pressure,compressor blade will suffer from several physical and chemical processes,such as centrifugal force,aerodynamic force vibration and oxidation. These processes will lead compressor blade to fatigue fracture,and at the same time,make negative effects on the engine’ s overall performance. Based on the software ANSYS15. 0,we made strength analysis and modal analysis of compressor blade in this paper. As a result,we got its natural frequencies,relevant modal parameters and vibration mode cloud pictures. After analyzing the influence that centrifugal force made on modal parameters,we predicted the expected damage of the blade. Eventually the analysis results will provide the basis for overall performance evaluation,structural crack detection,fatigue life estimation and strength calculation of aircraft engine compressor.

Investigation on damage mechanism of compressor blades in turboshaft engine induced by ice impacts at various locations

Ice causes impact damage to different positions of the compressor blade,destroys the structural integrity of the rotor structure,and then causes unbalanced failure and even causes nonlinear vibration accidents such as collision and friction,which affects the execution of helicopter tasks.To investigate the influence of impact position on the damage form and dynamic response of blades during ice impact,a dynamic model by finite element-smooth particle fluid dynamic coupling method is created.The ice impact damage experiment of the TC4 plate based on the air gun experimental platform was carried out to verify the reliability of the simulation model.The damage of compressor blades impacted by ice from different positions under static and design speed of 45000 r/min is analyzed.The research results indicate that under static conditions,the damage caused by ice impact from the leading edge blade tip to the leading edge blade root first increases and then decreases,with the maximum damage occurring at the 66.7%blade height position on the leading edge.At the design speed,the closer the impact locations are to the leaf tip,the greater the damage is,and the plastic damage,equivalent stress,and kinetic energy loss of the ice impact are lower than the blade static condition.The research conclusion can provide theoretical reference and data support for the design of structural strength and protection of compressor blades in turboshaft engines.

Effects of Heat Transfer on Laminar-to-Turbulent Transition over a Compressor Blade Operating at Low Reynolds Number

To control the transition process in a laminar separation bubble(LSB)over an ultra-high load compressor blade at a Re of 1.5×10^(5),the effects of wall heat transfer were considered and numerically investigated by large eddy simulations(LES).Compared with the adiabatic wall condition,the local kinematic viscosity of airflow was reduced by wall cooling;thus the effects of turbulent dissipation on the growth of fluctuations were weakened.As such,the transition occurred much earlier,and the size of LSB became smaller.On the cooled surface,the spanwise vortices deformed much more rapidly and the size of hairpin vortex structures was decreased.Furthermore,the rolling-up of 3D hairpin vortices and the ejection and sweeping process very close to the blade surface was weakened.Correspondingly,the aerodynamic losses of the compressor blade were reduced by 18.2%and 38.4%for the two cooled wall conditions.The results demonstrated the feasibility of wall cooling in controlling the transition within an LSB and reducing the aerodynamic loss of an ultra-highly loaded compressor blade.

Cathode design investigation based on iterative correction of predicted profile errors in electrochemical machining of compressor blades

Electrochemical machining (ECM) is an effective and economical manufacturing method for machining hard-to-cut metal materials that are often used in the aerospace field. Cathode design is very complicated in ECM and is a core problem influencing machining accuracy, especially for complex profiles such as compressor blades in aero engines. A new cathode design method based on iterative correction of predicted profile errors in blade ECM is proposed in this paper. A mathematical model is first built according to the ECM shaping law, and a simulation is then carried out using ANSYS software. A dynamic forming process is obtained and machining gap distributions at different stages are analyzed. Additionally, the simulation deviation between the prediction profile and model is improved by the new method through correcting the initial cathode profile. Furthermore, validation experiments are conducted using cathodes designed before and after the simulation correction. Machining accuracy for the optimal cathode is improved markedly compared with that for the initial cathode. The experimental results illustrate the suitability of the new method and that it can also be applied to other complex engine components such as diffusers. (C) 2016 Production and hosting by Elsevier Ltd. on behalf of Chinese Society of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

Method for utilizing PIV to investigate high curvature and acceleration boundary layer flows around the compressor blade leading edge

Particle Image Velocimetry(PIV)is a well-developed and contactless technique in experimental fluid mechanics,but the strong velocity gradient and streamline curvature near the wall substantially limits its accuracy improvement.This paper presents a data processing procedure combining conventional PIV and newly developed Mirror Interchange(MI)based Interface-PIV for the measurement of the boundary layer parameter development in the blade leading edge region.The synthetic particle images are used to analyze the measurement errors in the entire procedure.Overall,three types of errors,namely the errors caused by the Window Deformation Iterative Multigrid(WIDIM)algorithm,the discrete data interpolation and integration,and the wall offset uncertainty,comprise the main measurement error.Specifically,the errors due to the discrete data interpolation and integration and the WIDIM algorithm comprise the mean bias,which can be corrected through the error analysis method proposed in the present work.Meanwhile,the errors due to the WIDIM algorithm and the wall offset uncertainty contribute to the measurement uncertainty.Computational fluid dynamics-based synthetic particle flows were generated to verify the newly developed PIV data processing procedure and the corresponding error analysis method.Results showed that the data processing method could improve the accuracy of PIV measurements for boundary layer flows with high curvature and acceleration and even with significant flow separation bubbles.Finally,the data processing method is also applied in a PIV experiment to investigate the boundary layer flows around a compressor blade leading edge,and several credible boundary flow parameters were obtained.

Nonlinear Pre⁃deformation Method for Compressor Rotor Blade

A cold compressor blade deforms elastically under aerodynamic and centrifugal loads during operation,transforming into a hot blade configuration.Blade deformation has a significant effect on the performance of compressor.A nonlinear pre⁃deformation method for compressor rotor blade was developed with consideration of the nonlinear features of blade stiffness and load which varies with blade configuration.In the blade profile design phase,the method can be used to compensate the aeroelastic deformation of the blade during operation.The adverse effects of blade deflection on compressor performance and structure can be avoided by the pre⁃deformation method.Due to the fact that the nonlinear method is sensitive to initial value,a load incremental method was applied to calculate initial blade deformation to stabilize and accelerate the pre⁃deformation method.The developed method was used to predict the manufactured configuration of the Stage 37 rotor blade.The variation rules of aerodynamic and structure parameters of the pre⁃deformed blade were analyzed under off⁃design conditions.Results show that the developed method ensures that under the design condition there was a good match between the actual blade configuration during operation and the intended design blade profile.The blade untwist angle of pre⁃deformed blade could be 0°at design point.Meanwhile,the tip clearance only decreased 0.2%.When the working speed was faster than 80%design speed,the performance of the pre⁃deformed blade agreed with that of the design blade.However,the mass flow rate and the total pressure ratio of the pre⁃deformed blade were lower at low speeds.

Time-dependent Vibration Frequency Reliability Analysis of Blade Vibration of Compressor Wheel of Turbocharger for Vehicle Application

Blade vibration failure is one of the main failure modes of compressor wheel of turbocharger for vehicle application. The existing models for evaluating the reliability of blade vibration of compressor wheel are static, and can not reflect the relationship between the reliability of compressor wheel with blade vibration failure mode and the life parameter. For the blade vibration failure mode of compressor wheel of turbocharger, the reliability evaluation method is studied. Taking a compressor wheel of turbocharger for vehicle application as an example, the blade vibration characteristics and how they change with the operating parameters of turbocharger are analyzed. The failure criterion for blade vibration mode of compressor wheel is built with the Campbell diagram, and taking the effect of the dispersity of blade natural vibration frequency and randomness of turbocharger operating speed into account, time-dependent reliability models of compressor wheel with blade vibration failure mode are derived, which embody the parameters of blade natural vibration frequency, turbocharger operating speed, the blade number of compressor wheel, life index and minimum number of resonance, etc. Finally, the rule governing the reliability and failure rate of compressor wheel and the method for determining the reliable life of compressor with blade vibration is presented. A method is proposed to evaluate the reliability of compressor wheel with blade vibration failure mode time-dependently.

Study of modeling unsteady blade row interaction in a transonic compressor stage part 2:influence of deterministic correlations on time-averaged flow prediction

The average-passage equation system （APES） provides a rigorous mathematical framework for account- ing for the unsteady blade row interaction through multistage compressors in steady state environment by introducing de- terministic correlations （DC） that need to be modeled to close the equation system. The primary purpose of this study was to provide insight into the DC characteristics and the in- fluence of DC on the time-averaged flow field of the APES. In Part 2 of this two-part paper, the influence of DC on the time-averaged flow field was systematically studied; Several time-averaging computations boundary conditions and DC were conducted with various for the downstream stator in a transonic compressor stage, by employing the CFD solver developed in Part 1 of this two-part paper. These results were compared with the time-averaged unsteady flow field and the steady one. The study indicat;d that the circumferential- averaged DC can take into account major part of the unsteady effects on spanwise redistribution of flow fields in compres- sors. Furthermore, it demonstrated that both deterministic stresses and deterministic enthalpy fluxes are necessary to reproduce the time-averaged flow field.

叶片破损对压气机性能的影响

为了研究叶片破损对压气机内部流场的影响机理,本文针对带有破损的跨音速压气机叶片进行气动性能变化规律和机理研究。通过NASA rotor 37实验结果验证了计算方法的准确性,利用数值仿真研究了叶片破损对压气性能的影响规律,并对2种典型工况下叶片破损前后的流场结构进行对比分析,探讨引起性能变化的具体原因。研究表明:叶片破损会导致压气机的压比降低0.6631%、绝热效率降低0.7877%,且压气机的稳定裕度降低更为明显。叶尖破损主要对叶顶流场结构产生影响,使叶顶区域泄漏流增强,当其与激波相互作用时,通道内产生了流动堵塞和流动损失。本文研究成果可为实际服役中的航空发动机特性评定提供理论参考。

基于运营数据的发动机压气机叶片裂纹扩展规律研究

为研究航空发动机实际服役中转子叶片在复杂载荷作用下的裂纹损伤扩展规律,基于航空发动机运营数据构建叶片的裂纹扩展寿命曲线,同时采用断裂力学理论建立裂纹扩展速率公式。以高压压气机叶片为实例,通过流固耦合方法构建压气机叶片结构的载荷模型,分别采用Paris、Walker、Newman裂纹扩展速率公式对压气机叶尖区域进行三维裂纹扩展分析。仿真结果表明,三种裂纹扩展速率公式在裂纹扩展前期预测结果与发动机运营数据裂纹扩展曲线具有一致性,可较好地描述叶片裂纹扩展规律;在裂纹稳定扩展阶段,Walker和Newman公式预测结果相对危险,Paris公式预测结果吻合度较高,并且能与厂家技术手册中关于其损伤发展控制要求相互印证。

压气机叶片的磨削路径生成算法

针对当前航空发动机压气机叶片的打磨过程繁琐且路径生成算法普遍未适配压气机叶片的几何形貌和加工姿态等问题,提出一种基于压气机叶片的点云数据并自适应压气机叶片的加工姿态和形貌的磨削路径生成算法。以面结构光扫描获取叶片的3维点云信息,对叶片点云进行位姿矫正并在叶片待加工区域创建一系列间距适宜且相互平行的切平面进行切片处理,获取切片数据后计算切平面与叶片点云的交点,拟合所有切片所得交点并计算磨削抛光路径的路径点及刀具姿态。结果表明:通过计算对不同姿态下不同压气机叶片的路径信息进行了仿真,验证了所提出的算法具有自适应压气机叶片加工姿态和形貌的特性,避开了传统逆向工程中的曲面重构误差,证明了算法的可行性与有效性,可进一步应用于后续实际磨削抛光加工作业。

Aerodynamics of a Tandem-Bladed Axial Compressor Rotor under Circumferential Distortion at Different Rotational Speeds

For most aircraft engines,inflow distortion is inevitable.Inflow distortion is known to degrade the aerodynamic performance and stable operating limits of a compressor.Tandem rotor configuration is an arrangement that effectively controls the growth of the boundary layer over the suction surface of the blade.Therefore,a higher total pressure rise can be achieved through this unconventional design approach involving the splitting of the blade into forward and aft sections.It is expected that the effect of inlet flow distortion would be more severe for a tandem-rotor design due to the greater flow turning inherent in such designs.However,this aspect needs to be thoroughly examined.The present study discusses the effect of circumferential distortion on the tandem-rotor at different rotational speeds.Full-annulus RANS simulations using ANSYS CFX are used in the present study.The performance of the rotor at a particular flow coefficient and different rotational speeds is compared.The total pressure and efficiency are observed to drop at lower mass flow rates under the influence of circumferential distortion.The loss region in each blade passage is mainly associated with the blade wake,tip leakage vortex,secondary flow,and boundary layer.However,their contribution varies from passage to passage,particularly in the distorted sector.At the lower span,the wake width is found to be higher than that at a higher span.Due to the redistribution of the mass flow,the circumferential extent reduces at a higher span.In the undistorted sector,the strength of the tip leakage vortex is significantly higher at the design rotational speed than at lower speeds.The distortion near the tip region promotes an early vortex breakdown even at the design operating condition.This adversely affects the total pressure,efficiency,and stall margin.Under clean flow conditions,this phenomenon is only observed near the stall point.At the design operating condition,the breakdown of the forward rotor tip leakage vortex is detected in four blade passages.The axial velocity deficit and adverse pressure gradient play a significant role in the behaviour of tip leakage vortex at lower rotational speeds in the distorted sector.A twin vortex breakdown is also observed at lower speeds.

考虑叶片造型的压气机流动稳定性模型研究进展

压气机实际稳定裕度是否达到指标直接决定了发动机是否可以投入使用.目前的压气机气动设计体系中缺乏一种高效、准确的评估失稳边界的工具,导致在设计定型后依然存在实际稳定裕度不足的风险.因此迫切需要发展快速可靠的压气机稳定性预测工具以供设计阶段使用.现代航空压气机叶片的气动设计朝着三维精细化方向发展,如何在设计阶段考虑叶片三维造型的变化对稳定性的影响愈发关键.传统的激盘/半激盘模型难以精细捕捉到三维叶片造型对流动稳定性的影响,而非定常数值模拟方法对计算资源的消耗在压气机设计阶段难以承受.为了在精细考虑叶片造型影响的同时提高计算效率,为气动设计阶段提供稳定性评估工具,本团队首先在2013年提出了叶轮机流动稳定性通用理论,通过分布式叶片力源项建模考虑复杂叶片造型的影响,通过系统特征值描述流动稳定性.继而针对不同的预测目标和应用条件,发展了3种简化模型:子午面模型、流线模型和径向展开模型.其中子午面模型能够准确刻画叶尖间隙、叶片掠和叶片加载方式等关键设计参数对流动稳定性的影响,为设计阶段提供了一种可靠的失稳边界预测工具;流线模型可以快速评估展向各条流线系统的流动稳定性,并定量地给出流动稳定性最为薄弱的区域,从而有针对性地指导叶片扩稳设计;径向展开模型可以快速地预测离心压气机的流动失稳点,定量评估离心压气机流动稳定性.以上模型可以应用于压气机气动设计体系,为设计定型的压气机提供了可靠的稳定性评估方法,为压气机气动/稳定性一体化设计提供了技术储备.

基于CCD的激光熔覆熔池平滑度在线监测系统研究

由于激光熔覆过程高温高亮,无法实时准确判断熔覆效果。使用CCD相机结合平滑度监测算法,对不同功率下的熔池形貌进行监测,验证算法性能,判断熔覆效果,同时尝试叶片修复。结果表明:激光功率过大或者扫描速度过慢,均会导致熔池边缘平滑度较差,进而认为熔覆参数不合适;为防止熔坏基材,可根据监测效果及时停机;发现激光功率与熔池边缘平滑度呈负相关。

考虑加工误差及多工况影响的压气机叶型鲁棒性优化

针对压气机叶型在宽攻角宽马赫数范围内低损失工作、叶型性能对加工误差不敏感的工程需求,首先,建立了考虑加工误差及几何参数的叶型优化流程;然后,以某压气机静子叶型为研究对象,基于构建的代理模型,在设计马赫数0.87(跨音流动)与低马赫数0.7(亚音流动)下开展了考虑加工误差及多攻角工况影响的压气机叶型鲁棒性优化设计研究。结果表明:针对跨音流动工况优化获得的叶型,其设计马赫数攻角特性大幅改善,但亚音流动工况下的攻角特性略微恶化;针对亚音流动工况优化获得的叶型,其攻角特性在多个低马赫数工况下大幅改善,在跨音流动工况下恶化。

压气机内部旋转不稳定的研究综述

旋转不稳定是压气机工作在高负荷近失速工况时的一种常见现象。研究旋转不稳定在降低压气机工作噪声、减小流致振动以及保障航空发动机稳定工作等方面具有重要意义。首先对旋转不稳定现象进行了回顾,详细讨论了旋转不稳定的特征。其次,重点调研了旋转不稳定的起源和机理,将旋转不稳定产生的原因归纳为叶尖泄漏流、涡脱落以及流动剪切等类别。此外,回顾了模拟旋转不稳定的数值方法,讨论了多种流动控制手段对旋转不稳定的作用效果。最后,对旋转不稳定的研究现状进行了总结,对未来的研究趋势进行了展望。

双级可转导叶压气机性能研究

压气机的稳定性是保证压气机其他性能及燃气轮机正常运行的基础,而压气机存在着失速、喘振等不稳定现象,这种不稳定流动会严重影响整机运行的稳定性。导叶/静叶可调是一种防止喘振从而避免压气机进入失稳流动的有效措施。该文介绍了一个集成式压气机实验台,除了可进行高精度可转导叶性能研究外,还可进行压气机不同叶片综合性能和局部特性实验测量工作,且其数据采集集成系统可满足实时准确观测实验台相关参数的需求。通过实验与数值模拟相结合的方法对2.5级轴流压气机进行了研究,通过逐级调节进口导叶和一级静叶的旋转角度,获得了叶片调节角度与压气机效率之间的对应关系。

基于流固耦合的压气机转子叶片非同步振动分析

压气机转子叶片非同步振动是近年来发现的一类新气动弹性问题,表现为叶片振动频率与转频不同步且具有锁频现象,严重影响航空发动机的可靠性和运行安全,目前对其产生机理并不完全清楚.为了深入研究压气机内不稳定流动与叶片非同步振动之间的耦合机制,基于时间推进的方法建立了多级压气机转子叶片全环的双向流固耦合模型,数值研究了刚性叶片与非同步振动柔性叶片的非定常流场、气流激励频率和结构响应特征,揭示了压气机转子叶片非同步振动的流固耦合机制.结果表明:近失速工况下,转子叶尖吸力面径向分离涡的周期性脱落及再附过程是导致叶尖压力剧烈波动的主要原因,其3倍谐波激励频率与转子一阶弯曲固有频率接近,提供了叶片非同步振动的初始气流激励源.叶片非同步振动发生时,位移响应表现为等幅值的极限环特征,振动以一阶弯曲模态主导,径向分离涡产生的非整数倍气流激励频率及其谐波频率最终锁定为叶片一阶弯曲固有频率,非同步振动的运动胁迫使得相邻通道叶尖流场周向趋于一致.研究成果及对叶片非同步振动流固耦合机制的认识可为压气机内部不稳定流动诱发的叶片振动失效分析提供有益参考.