Title
Strength and dynamic characteristics analyses of wound composite axial impeller
Date Issued
01 January 2012
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Michigan State University
Publisher(s)
Springer-Verlag Wien
Abstract
A low cost, light weight, high performance composite material turbomachinery impeller with a uniquely designed blade patterns is analyzed. Such impellers can economically enable refrigeration plants to use water as a refrigerant (R718). A strength and dynamic characteristics analyses procedure is developed to assess the maximum stresses and natural frequencies of these wound composite axial impellers under operating loading conditions. Numerical simulation using FEM for two-dimensional and three-dimensional impellers was investigated. A commercially available software ANSYS is used for the finite element calculations. Analysis is done for different blade geometries and then suggestions are made for optimum design parameters. In order to avoid operating at resonance, which can make impellers suffer a significant reduction in the design life, the designer must calculate the natural frequency and modal shape of the impeller to analyze the dynamic characteristics. The results show that using composite Kevlar fiber/epoxy matrix enables the impeller to run at high tip speed and withstand the stresses, no critical speed will be matched during start-up and shut-down, and that mass imbalances of the impeller shall not pose a critical problem.
Start page
104
End page
112
Volume
2
Issue
1
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Mecánica aplicada
Sensores remotos
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84865153535
Source
Central European Journal of Engineering
ISSN of the container
18961541
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