A Blade Tip-Timing method based on Periodic Nonuniform Sampling of order 2

TL;DR

This paper introduces a Blade Tip-Timing method based on a specific nonuniform sampling technique to accurately identify asynchronous vibration frequencies in rotating blades, enhancing non-intrusive measurement accuracy.

Contribution

The paper develops a PNSL model with order 2 for blade vibration analysis, demonstrating its effectiveness in locating asynchronous frequency components.

Findings

Model L=2 suffices for identifying asynchronous frequencies.

Increasing L improves accuracy but adds redundancy.

Method is non-intrusive and suitable for blade vibration monitoring.

Abstract

Vibrations are among main causes of fatigue and damages leading to destruction of rotating blades. Consequently, motions of blades have to be carefully studied, and in particular, periodic components. Blade Tip-Timing (BTT) methods achieve non-intrusive measurements which is a great advantage with respect to classical methods. They can be modelled by a Periodic Nonuniform Sampling of order L equal to the number of probes (PNSL). In this paper, we develop the case L=2, and we prove that this model is sufficient for finding the places of asynchronous frequency lines, with their amplitudes and their phases. To increase L will increase the redundance and then the accuracy of the method.