• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.37 no.6
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• pp.769-774
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• 2013

Turbine blades and disc, which are one of the most important rotating parts of a gas turbine engine, are required to have highly efficient performance in order to minimize the total life cycle costs. Owing to these requirements, these components are exposed to severe conditions such as extreme turbine inlet temperatures, high compression ratios, and high speeds. To evaluate the structural integrity of a turbine disc under these conditions, material modeling and finite element analysis techniques are essential; furthermore, shape optimization is necessary for determining the optimal solution. This study aims to generate 2D finite element models of an axisymmetry model and a sector one and to perform thermal-structural coupled-field analysis and contact analysis. Structurally vulnerable areas such as the disc bore and disc-blade interface region are analyzed by a parametric study. Finally, an improved design is provided based on the results, and the necessity of elaborate shape optimization is confirmed.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.219-222
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• 2009

Pyrostarters play a role as a turbopump starter in liquid propellant propulsion systems by supplying pressurized gas to power turbines for engine start. A rupture disk in pyrostarters, which is usually installed behind a nozzle throat, not only isolates the charged solid propellants from the external environment but also improves the ignitability of the solid propellants by increasing a chamber pressure at the beginning of combustion. Experimental tests have been performed to study the effects of rupture disk thickness, depth and shape of scores, and pressure build-up rates on burst pressures and burst diameters. The experimental results show that the developed rupture disk fulfills the performance requirements expected in a real operational condition.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.38 no.4
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• pp.379-384
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• 2014

The most critical rotating parts of a gas turbine engine are turbine blades and disc, given that they must operate under severe conditions such as high turbine inlet temperature, high speeds, and high compression ratios. Owing to theses operating conditions and high rotational speed energy, some failures caused by turbine disks and blades are categorized into catastrophic and critical, respectively. To maximize the margin of structural integrity, we aim to optimize the vulnerable area of disc-blade interface region. Then, to check the robustness of the obtained optimized solution, we evaluated structural reliability under uncertainties such as dimensional tolerance and fatigue life variant. The results highlighted the necessity for and limitations of optimization which is one of deterministic methods, and pointed out the requirement for introducing reliability-based design optimization which is one of stochastic methods. Thermal-structural coupled-filed analysis and contact analysis are performed for them.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Technology of Plasticity Conference
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• 2007.05a
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• pp.427-430
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• 2007

Gas turbine disk components have been used by Ni-base superalloys which have high temperature strength for enduring stress induced by high speed rotation. This study introduced the overview of development strategy of precision forging of turbine disk and closed-die forging process for manufacturing good quality gas turbine disk. To make superior quality turbine disk, it is important to select optimal forging process conditions like preform shape, die shape and forging temperature etc. In this paper, closed-die forging process has been studied through the rigid-plastic finite element simulation. Proposed forging process can be used for the successful manufacturing of small-size gas turbine disk.

• 기계와재료
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• v.9 no.4 s.34
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• pp.84-96
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• 1997

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 1998.04a
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• pp.8-8
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• 1998

Alloy 718은 Fe을 다량 함유하고 있어 가격이 저렴하고 엔진 작동조건에서 내열강도, 내환경성 등이 우수하여, 터빈디스크, 터빈샤프트, 터빈실, 압축기 블레이드 등에 다양하게 이용되고 있다. 이 합금은 고온에서 반복응력을 받는 부위에 대부분 사용되기 때문에 고온인장, 저주기 피로측정 등의 기계적 성질이 동시에 요구되며, 이들 특성은 단조공정변수 및 후열처리 등에 의해 크게 바뀌게 된다. 본 연구에서는 Alloy 718을 이용하여 가스터빈 디스크 제조할 경우 공정변수로서 단조온도, 변형속도 등에 의한 조직이 변화와 이에 따른 기계적 특성의 변화를 다루었다. 특히 이 합금에서 결정립크기는 고온 기계적 성질을 결정하는 중요한 변수로 작용하는데, 2단계 단조공정시 재결정에 의한 조직의 변화를 전산모사 방법에 의해 해석하고 그 결과를 조직 관찰을 통해 검증하였다.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.26 no.2
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• pp.365-373
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• 2002

For gas turbine engines, the safe life methodology has historically been used fur fatigue life management of failure critical engine components. The safe retirement limit is necessarily determined by a conservative life evaluation procedure, thereby many components which have a long residual life are discarded. The objective of this study is to introduce the damage tolerant design concept into the life management for aircraft engine component instead of conservative fatigue life methodology which has been used for both design and maintenance. Crack growth data were collected on a nickel base superalloy which have been subjected to combined static and cyclic loading at elevated temperatures. Stress analysis fur turbine disk was carried out. The program for computing creep-fatigue crack growth was developed. The residual lifes of turbine disk component under various temperatures and conditions using creep-fatigue crack growth data were estimated. As the result of analysis, it was confirmed that retirement fur cause concept was applicable to the evaluation of residual life of retired turbine disk which had been designed based on the conventional fatigue life methodology.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.20 no.8
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• pp.2524-2539
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• 1996

A design process and an axisymmetric boundary integral equation method for precise structural analysis of the aircraft gas turbine rotor disk were developed. This axisymmetric boundary integral equation method for stress and steady-state thermal analysis was improved in solution accuracy by appling an implicit technique for Cauchy principal value evaluation, a subelement technique for weak singular integral evaluation and a double exponentical integral technoque for internal point solution near boundary surfaces. Stresses, temperatures, low cycle fatigue lifes and critical speeds for the turbine rotor disk of the thrust 1421 N class turbojet engine were analysed in a pratical calculation model problem.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.26 no.1
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• pp.38-46
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• 2022

One of the main goal of gas turbine rim seal research is to prevent thermal damage at rotor-stator disk by preventing hot gas of main flow in turbine passage. To increase sealing performance, several studies related to the improvement of rim seal configuration have been conducted. In addition, research based on actual operating condition is needed in order to apply effective turbine rim seal configuration. In this study, numerical simulation was conducted with variation of rotor rim seal thickness. Radial and axial expansion cases were tested numerically in this study. As a result, the cases showed different pressure distribution, sealing performance and flow characteristics according to the amount of secondary flow.

• Aerospace Engineering and Technology
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.204-209
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• 2010

The current status of the development of pyrostarters, which play a role as a turbo pump starter in liquid propellant propulsion systems by supplying pressurized gas to power turbines for engine start, has been introduced. Firstly, the development history is briefly summarized, and secondly the current technical status in core parts for the development of pryrostarters such as solid propellants, internal ballistics, rupture discs, and igniters are presented. The current technical achievements could make it feasible to fulfill the development requirements for pyrostarters.