Effect of temperature on the dynamic performance of C/C composite finger seal

Abstract

The designs of sealing device have prominent influence on the performance of aero-engine. The high temperature environment during the working process of aero-engine also has important influence on the performance of sealing device which is located in the aero-engine. Finger seal has a flexible characteristic and high price performance compared with the other seal devices, thus it gets more attention, and lots of researchers have studied about finger seal’s performance recently. But so far the dynamic performance of finger seal considering temperature effect is not yet analyzed and discussed. Based on this, an equivalent dynamic model based on distributed mass considering temperature effect is proposed in the paper. The effects of environment temperature and heat through friction on the equivalent structural stiffness of finger stick and contact pressure between finger stick and rotor are discussed. Moreover, the data exchange between the dynamic and thermal analysis is confirmed based on the movement relationship between the rotor excitation and finger stick response. Therefore, the dynamic performance analysis of finger seal including thermal-structure coupling is obtained based on an equivalent dynamic method. The effect of temperature on the dynamic performance of finger seal using this model is analyzed, and the effect of C/C composite structural parameters on the finger seal performance is investigated considering the temperature effect. The above results show that the temperature effect has important influence on the performance of finger seal, so it is necessary to consider the temperature effect when the performance of finger seal is analyzed. The current work further improves the theoretical system about finger seal equivalent dynamic research, and has higher academic significance and engineering value.