A REVIEW OF TURBINE STRESS ANALYSIS

Acrylonitirle-butadiene-styrene - ABS Plastic

Chemical formula (C8H8)x(C4H6)y(C3H3N)z)
Density 1050Kg/m3
Tensile Strength 46 MPa (6600 PSI)
Flexural Strength 74 MPa (10800 PSI)
Specific Gravity 1.06
Youngs Modulus 2.5 Gpa
Poissons Ratio 0.4

Have superior strength, stiffness and toughness to many plastics

Visco-Elastic material

A. Thakker, et al., 2001

Blade Configuration

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 Manufacturing
Rapid Prototype Additive Manufacturing (30, 17 hours)
 Design Stresses and Strains
West (1986) gives 10 MPa as a general design stress

British standard Code of Practice CP231 Recommending a value of 6.3 Mpa

The tensile strength for ABS obtained from stress-strain tests is in the region of
36 to 40 Mpa

Design strains for ABS is known to be of the order of 10-2

A. Thakker, et al., 2001

 Two scenarios of angular velocity are considered" 36.65 rad/s and 194 rad/s.
194rad/s is the maximum angular velocity that the test apparatus can achieve.

Tangential Loading

The tangential thrust on the turbine can be found by applying the

momentum equation in the tangential direction with a consideration of
the velocity triangles for the impulse turbine.

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 Axial Loading

The pressure drop across the stage was estimated and applied to the rotor. As a
result, this value represents a conservative estimate of the actual pressure drop
across the rotor.

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 Constraints

The blade is bolted to the hub, thus the blade was constrained to be fixed in all
directions on the inside surface. Under loading, the blade geometry did not
deform so as to interfere with the hub.

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FEM Analysis of Turgo Impulse Turbine Blade
Sourabh KHURANA et al., 2013