Numerical Analysis Concerning the Harmfulness of Crack Turbine Rotors Using a Multi-Scale Approach Based on a Dynamic Finite Element Method

Abstract:

This work is placed in the context of the simulation of the behavior and the harmfulness of cracked rotors by Electricité de France (EDF) in order to evaluate its impact on the industrial system. Several numerical tools have been developed by the Research and Development Division of EDF and a feasibility study was conducted to prove its capacities to simulate the behavior of a rotor subject to a crack. Since the industrial context request fast response to such situation, the numerical simulation must be performed as quickly as possible. For this reason a multi-scale 1D-3D modeling has been proposed: the healthy part of the rotor is modeled by reduced Timoshenko beam finite elements since the part including the crack is modeled by 3D finite elements. The aim of the work is to prove the accuracy of this multi-scale approach, its feasibility and its CPU performance.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 656)
• Pages: 315-324
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.656.315
• Online since: October 2014
• Authors: Anh Tuan Dau*, Ionel Nistor, Adinel Gavrus
• Keywords: Code_Aster, Dynamic Finite Element Modeling, Fractured, Multi-Scale 1D-3D Model, Stress Intensity Factor (SIF), Time Schemes, Turbo-Generator Group (TGG)

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