A coupled approach to model the effect of wear on the dynamics of the shrouded bladed disk

TL;DR

This paper presents a coupled static/dynamic harmonic balance method with an adaptive wear logic to model how wear affects the nonlinear dynamics of shrouded bladed disks, highlighting the importance of contact pre-load changes over component lifetime.

Contribution

It introduces a novel coupled approach combining wear energy and harmonic balance methods to analyze wear effects on blade disk dynamics with changing contact conditions.

Findings

Wear significantly alters the dynamic response curves.

Contact interface evolves with wear, affecting vibration amplitudes.

The method efficiently predicts wear impact on nonlinear dynamics.

Abstract

This paper deals with modelling the effect of wear on the dynamics of the shrouded bladed disk with frictional contacts at the shrouds and the contact interface evolution. Prediction of fretting wear commonly occurring at the contacts of turbomachinery components, and its impact on the dynamics is increasingly researched due to the components subjected to their structural limits for performance and operating at high loading conditions. Over a lifetime, the fretting wear at these contacts could alter the global dynamic response of these bladed disks from the designed operating point and could lead to high vibration amplitudes. This study implements a coupled static/dynamic harmonic balance method (HBM) with wear energy approach and an adaptive wear logic to study the impact on the steady-state nonlinear dynamic response. Firstly, the methodology is applied to a cantilever beam with a contact patch and then to a shrouded bladed disk with shroud contacts using cyclic symmetry boundary conditions. The novelty of the paper is to show the effect of wear on the dynamics with the changing contact pre-load using a coupled approach. A wear acceleration $v_{w,max}$ parameter is defined, and the impact of the choice of this parameter is discussed in detail on the computation time and the accuracy of results. The test cases demonstrate the impact of wear on the dynamic nonlinear response curves and the contact interface evolution for various scenarios.