SNS COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY

(An Autonomous Institution)

Coimbatore-35

Fourth Review
DEPARTMENT OF AERONAUTICAL

Guided By
Mr.K.NEHRU
AP/AERO

ENGINEERING
Submitted By
R.BHARATHKANNAN
(13AE007)

TITLE:
FATIGUE LIFE ANALYSIS OF GAS
TURBINE ROTOR BLADE

Objective

To estimate the fatigue life of the turbine

blades of a gas turbine engine.

INTRODUCTION
Most of the aircrafts use gas turbine
engines for its operation.
Inlet, Compressor , Combustion chamber,
Turbine and nozzle are the key
components of the engine.
Its operation is based on Brayton cycle.

TURBINE BLADES
Turbine are present next to the combustion
chamber.
It consists of series of blades.
It does not involve in the process.
But it performs the following tasks
a) to drive the compressor by
means of a rotating shaft.
b) it direct the gas from
combustors with high pressure and
temperature to the nozzle to increase the
velocity to produce thrust.

Failures on turbine blades

The engine components fails due to
several effects such as corrosion, wear,
fracture, fatigue, etc.
Fatigue is an important cause for turbine
blade failure.
Fatigue occurs due to application of
repeated cyclic load on the structural
members.

 Loads acting on the turbine blades are

1) Gas Bending load - due to the high pressure
of the gas
2) Centrifugal load - due to the high
rotational velocity of the blades
3) Thermal load
- due to the high
temperature of the gas
Due to the repeated application of the these loads
turbine blade fatigue failure occurs.

LITERATURE SURVEY

Fatigue Life Estimation Procedure

for a Turbine Blade
Author: Vyas.N.S And Rao.J.S

Fatigue analysis and consequent life prediction of

turbo machine blade requires the stress load history
of the blade.
A blade designed for safe operation at particular
constant rotor speeds may, however, incur damaging
stresses during start-up and shut-down operations.
In this paper a technique for fatigue damage
assessment during variable-speed operations is
presented.
The fatigue failure surface is generated on the S-Nmean stress axes.

Failure Analysis of Gas Turbine Blades

Author: Mehdi Tofighi Naeem, Seyed Ali Jazayeri
The failure analysis of gas turbine blades made of nickel-base
alloy was carried out in two discrete sections:
a) Mechanical analysis,
b) Metallurgical analysis,

Using ANSYS Workbench 11.0 software (advanced CFD

section), a steady state gas flow analysis was carried out, on the
pressure and temperature distributions and velocity vectors and
streamlines were delineated.

Then, by mapping these results on the other section of it

(simulation section), equivalent stresses and total deformation
were determined.

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