Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Turbine Blades: Susmit Nannapaneni Aditya Madapati Satya Parvathaneni
Turbine Blades: Susmit Nannapaneni Aditya Madapati Satya Parvathaneni
Turbine Blades: Susmit Nannapaneni Aditya Madapati Satya Parvathaneni
Susmit Nannapaneni
Aditya Madapati
Satya Parvathaneni
Overview
Applications
Design Considerations
Material Considerations
Manufacturing Processes
Review
Questions
Applications
Steam Tubines
Gas Turbine Generators
Jet Engines
Rolls Royce
Turbine Blades
Steam Turbine
Design Considerations
Geometry
Cooling Vanes
Attachment Interface
Safety Factors
Geometry
Cooling Vanes
Blades must be kept cool
Often operate near the metal melting
point
An increase of only 17 C can
decrease the engine life by half
Cool (300 C ) air is run out of the
blades through small holes (vanes),
keeping the blades from melting.
Pic
Attachment
Keep Stress Concentrations Low
Fir Tree Attachment
Reduced stress
concentrations
Easy replacement
Also known as the
Christmas Tree
Safety Factors
Higher S.F. is usually the best.
But what if the engine runs out of control at
speeds higher than intended?
The energy of the rotating blades goes up with 2
What happens if the blades brake at 10%
overload? 20%, 30%, 40%, 50% ?
Too much energy and the blades might break
through the engine shroud and into the fuselage.
Quick Video
Boeing 777
Engine Test
Material Considerations
Environment
Creep
Current Materials Used
Materials In Research
Environment
Air Temperature: Between 850 and 1600 C
Melting Temperature:
Steel:1400C
Nickel Alloy: 1200C
Titanium:1650C
Creep
Initially Steel
Nickel Alloys
Most common material is Titanium
Laser peening
Ceramic Coatings
Material In Research
Ceramic blades
Manufacturing Processes
Machining (not too common)
Investment Casting
Secondary machining
Electro-Chemical Machining
Single operation
Design Sites
1. www.pccsmp.com (manufacturing)
2. www.turboblades.com (manufacturing)
3. www.giverin.demon.co.uk/NewFiles/HT
WTurbines.html (information)
4. www.gas-turbines.com/begin (information)
5. www.pratt-whitney.com (engine manufacturer)
Review
Applications:
Jet Engines
Gas Turbine Generators
Steam Turbines
Design Factors:
Geometry
S.F.
Materials:
Very high temperatures
Titanium
Manufacturing: