Simulation of crack growth in the internal cooling system of a blade in a Siemens gas turbine has been studied by inserting and propagating cracks at appropriate locations. The softwares used are ABAQUS and FRANC3D, where the latter supports finite element meshing of a crack and calculation of the stress intensities along the crack front based on the results from an external finite element program. The blade is subjected to thermo-mechanical fatigue and the cracks are grown subjected to in-phase loading conditions. The material of the blade is STAL15SX, a nickel-base single-crystal superalloy. The <001> crystalline direction is aligned with the loading direction of the blade, while the secondary crystalline directions are varied to examine how it affects the thermo-mechanical crack propagation fatigue life of the blade. The finite element model is set up using a submodeling technique to reduce the computational time for the simulations. Investigations to validate the submodeling technique are conducted. From the work it can be concluded that a crack located at a critical location in the cooling lattice reach above the crack propagation target life. Cracks located at noncritical locations have crack propagation lives of a factor 5.2 times the life of the critical crack.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:liu-153876 |
| Date | January 2016 |
| Creators | Koernig, Andreas, Andersson, Nicke |
| Publisher | Linköpings universitet, Mekanik och hållfasthetslära, Linköpings universitet, Mekanik och hållfasthetslära |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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