The Vibrational Behavior of Bladed Disks in Consideration of Friction Damping and Contact Elasticity

Abstract

AbstractRotating turbine blading is subjected to fluctuating gas forces during operation that cause blade vibrations. One of the main tasks in the design of turbomachinery blading is the reduction of the vibration amplitudes of the blades to avoid high resonance stresses that could damage the blading. The vibration amplitudes of the blades can be reduced significantly to a reasonable amount by means of friction damping devices such as underplatform dampers. In the case of blade vibrations, relative displacements between the friction damping devices and the neighboring blades occur and friction forces are generated that provide additional damping to the structure due to the dry friction energy dissipation. In real turbomachinery applications, spatial blade vibrations caused by a complex blade geometry and distributed excitation forces acting on the airfoil accur. Therefore, a three dimensional model including an appropriate spatial contact model to predict the generalized contact forces is necessary to describe the vibrational behavior of the blading with sufficient accuracy, see [1] and [2]. In this paper the contact model presented in [2] is extended to include also local deformations in the contacts between underplatform dampers and the contact surfaces of the adjacent blades. The additional elasticity in the contact influences the resonance frequency of the coupled bladed disk assembly. (© 2005 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)