Evolutionary stress minimisation on a turbine blade shank

Authors

  • Witold Grela Silesian University of Technology
    Poland
  • Tadeusz Burczyński Cracow University of Technology
    Poland

Keywords:

AI, evolutionary optimisation, APDL, turbine blade, shape optimisation, Finite Element Method (FEM)

Abstract

The paper describes shape optimisation of a turbine blade shank. The turbine blade shank zone with a compound fillet is a critical location where a high risk of failure exists. The APDL language operating in Ansys .environment is used to write a parametric turbine blade shank FEM models generator, which is a basic part of evolutionary optimisation routine. The goal of the optimisation is the 1st principal stress reduction with maximum allowable mass constraint imposed. Parameterisation routine and optimisation results are presented and discussed.

References

[1] APDL Programmer's Guide, Ansys 6.1 Documentation, 2002 SAS, IP, Inc.
[2] J. Arabas. Lectures on Evolutionary Algorithms (in Polish), WNT, Warszawa, 200l.
[3] T. Burczyński ed. Computational Sensitivity Analysis and Evolutionary Optimization of Systems with Geometrical Singularities, Scientific Publications of Department for Strength of Materials and Computational Mechanics, Silesian University of Technology, No.1, Gliwice, 2002.
[4] T. Burczyński, W. Cholewa eds. Methods of Artificial Intelligence in Mechanics and Mechanical Engineering, AI-MECH Series Gliwice, 2000.
[5] T. Burczyński, A. Osyczka eds. Evolutionary Methods in Mechanics, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht 2004.

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Published

2022-11-30

Issue

pp. 147-161

Section

Articles

How to Cite

Grela, W., & Burczyński, T. (2022). Evolutionary stress minimisation on a turbine blade shank. Computer Assisted Methods in Engineering and Science, 12(2-3), 147-161. https://cames3.ippt.pan.pl/index.php/cames/article/view/985