Reliability assessment of a turbogenerator coil retaining ring based on low cycle fatigue data
Journal Title: Archive of Mechanical Engineering - Year 2014, Vol 0, Issue 1
Abstract
Turbogenerator coil retaining rings are shrunk-fitted onto the rotor over the coils, in order to restrain them against the centrifugal force. They are typically subjected to low cycle fatigue, with a cycle being completed at every machine switch-on and switch-off. The subject of this paper consists in the determination of the failure probability of a coil retaining ring. The failure mode of the ring cracking, when it swells in tension, due to the centrifugal force is here considered. The reliability assessment is preceded by the study of the input variables affecting the low-cycle fatigue load and of their stochastic distributions. This question is tackled by the experimental determination of the static, cyclic and fatigue curves of the involved material and by the application of a statistical model to compute related parameters and their standard deviations. Upon the determination of variable distributions, the probability of failure is estimated in the form of a cumulative distribution function by a computationally efficient methodology, based on the Advanced Mean Value approach. The obtained results account for the material response and the local stress-strain states at the most loaded coil retaining ring region. The determined probability at the end of the machine life, in the order of 10^(-12,) is compatible with reference values for structures under fatigue in the mechanical and aeronautical fields.
Authors and Affiliations
Giorgio Olmi, Alessandro Freddi
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