TY - JOUR
T1 - Heat transfer, thermal stress and failure analyses in a TiB2 gas turbine stator blade
AU - Vaferi, Kourosh
AU - Nekahi, S.
AU - Vajdi, Mohammad
AU - Sadegh Moghanlou, Farhad
AU - Shokouhimehr, Mohammadreza
AU - Motallebzadeh, Amir
AU - Sha, Jianjun
AU - Shahedi Asl, M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Elsevier Ltd and Techna Group S.r.l.
PY - 2019/10/15
Y1 - 2019/10/15
N2 - Gas turbine stator blades do not experience centrifugal force contrary to the rotor blades; but they are exposed to high–temperature combustion gases causing thermal stresses. In the present work, a series of numerical simulations were carried out to clarify the feasibility of TiB2 utilization as an appropriate material for gas turbine stator blades. The governing equations of heat transfer and solid mechanics were discretized by the finite element method and solved using Comsol Multiphysics software. The boundary conditions were applied, and temperature, displacement and maximum principle stress were obtained. The results showed that using ceramics such as TiB2 instead of conventional alloys can enhance the maximum displacement. Temperature distribution in the blade is more uniform than that of alloys, and consequently, the thermal stresses are reduced. The TiB2 can withstand the applied stresses according to the Coulomb–Mohr theory with a safety factor of 2.4.
AB - Gas turbine stator blades do not experience centrifugal force contrary to the rotor blades; but they are exposed to high–temperature combustion gases causing thermal stresses. In the present work, a series of numerical simulations were carried out to clarify the feasibility of TiB2 utilization as an appropriate material for gas turbine stator blades. The governing equations of heat transfer and solid mechanics were discretized by the finite element method and solved using Comsol Multiphysics software. The boundary conditions were applied, and temperature, displacement and maximum principle stress were obtained. The results showed that using ceramics such as TiB2 instead of conventional alloys can enhance the maximum displacement. Temperature distribution in the blade is more uniform than that of alloys, and consequently, the thermal stresses are reduced. The TiB2 can withstand the applied stresses according to the Coulomb–Mohr theory with a safety factor of 2.4.
KW - Brittle material
KW - Coulomb–Mohr theory
KW - Gas turbine blade
KW - Principle stresses
KW - Titanium diboride
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ceramint.2019.06.184
DO - 10.1016/j.ceramint.2019.06.184
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85067672663
SN - 0272-8842
VL - 45
SP - 19331
EP - 19339
JO - Ceramics International
JF - Ceramics International
IS - 15
ER -