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Model update and validation of a mistuned high-pressure compressor blisk

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2019

B. Beirow ,
A. Kühhorn ,
F. Figaschewsky ,
P. Hönisch ,
T. Giersch  and
S. Schrape
B. Beirow*
Affiliation:
Brandenburg University of Technology, Cottbus, Germany
A. Kühhorn
Affiliation:
Brandenburg University of Technology, Cottbus, Germany
F. Figaschewsky
Affiliation:
Brandenburg University of Technology, Cottbus, Germany
P. Hönisch
Affiliation:
ABB Turbo Systems, Baden, Switzerland
T. Giersch
Affiliation:
Rolls-Royce Deutschland, Blankenfelde-Mahlow, Germany
S. Schrape
Affiliation:
Rolls-Royce Deutschland, Blankenfelde-Mahlow, Germany
*
beirow@b-tu.de
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Abstract

In order to prepare an advanced 4-stage high-pressure compressor rig test campaign, details regarding both accomplishment and analysis of preliminary experiments are provided in this paper. The superior objective of the research project is to contribute to a reliable but simultaneously less conservative design of future high pressure blade integrated disks (blisk). It is planned to achieve trend-setting advances based on a close combination of both numerical and experimental analyses. The analyses are focused on the second rotor of this research compressor, which is the only one being manufactured as blisk. The comprehensive test program is addressing both surge and forced response analyses e.g. caused by low engine order excitation. Among others the interaction of aeroelastics and blade mistuning is demanding attention in this regard. That is why structural models are needed, allowing for an accurate forced response prediction close to reality. Furthermore, these models are required to support the assessment of blade tip timing (BTT) data gathered in the rig tests and strain gauge (s/g) data as well. To gain the maximum information regarding the correlation between BTT data, s/g-data and pressure gauge data, every blade of the second stage rotor (28 blades) is applied with s/g. However, it is well known that s/g on blades can contribute additional mistuning that had to be considered upon updating structural models.

Due to the relevance of mistuning, efforts are made for its accurate experimental determination. Blade-by-blade impact tests according to a patented approach are used for this purpose. From the research point of view, it is most interesting to determine both the effect s/g-instrumentation and assembling the compressor stages on blade frequency mistuning. That is why experimental mistuning tests carried out immediately after manufacturing the blisk are repeated twice, namely, after s/g instrumentation and after assembling. To complete the pre-test program, the pure mechanical damping and modal damping ratios dependent on the ambient pressure are experimentally determined inside a pressure vessel. Subsequently the mistuning data gained before is used for updating subset of nominal system mode (SNM) models. Aerodynamic influence coefficients (AICs) are implemented to take aeroelastic interaction into account for forced response analyses. Within a comparison of different models, it is shown for the fundamental flap mode (1F) that the s/g instrumentation significantly affects the forced response, whereas the impact of assembling the compressor plays a minor role.

Keywords

BliskMistuningAerodynamic damping
Type
Research Article
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The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 123 , Issue 1260 , February 2019 , pp. 230 - 247
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© Royal Aeronautical Society 2019 

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Footnotes

A version of this paper was presented at the ISABE 2017 Conference, 3–8 September 2017, Manchester, UK.

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