Single-crystal superalloy turbine blades used in high-pressure turbomachinery are subject to conditions of high temperature, triaxial steady and alternating stresses, fretting stresses in the blade attachment and damper contact locations, and exposure to high-pressure hydrogen. The blades are also subjected to extreme variations in temperature during start-up and shutdown transients. The most prevalent high-cycle fatigue (HCF) failure modes observed in these blades during operation include crystallographic crack initiation/propagation on octahedral planes and noncrystallographic initiation with crystallographic growth. Numerous cases of crack initiation and crack propagation at the blade leading edge tip, blade attachment regions, and damper contact locations have been documented. Understanding crack initiation/propagation under mixed-mode loading conditions is critical for establishing a systematic procedure for evaluating HCF life of single-crystal turbine blades. This paper presents analytical and numerical techniques for evaluating two- and three-dimensional (3D) subsurface stress fields in anisotropic contacts. The subsurface stress results are required for evaluating contact fatigue life at damper contacts and dovetail attachment regions in single-crystal nickel-base superalloy turbine blades. An analytical procedure is presented for evaluating the subsurface stresses in the elastic half-space, based on the adaptation of a stress function method outlined by Lekhnitskii (1963, Theory of Elasticity of an Anisotropic Elastic Body, Holden-Day, Inc., San Francisco, pp. 1–40). Numerical results are presented for cylindrical and spherical anisotropic contacts, using finite element analysis. Effects of crystal orientation on stress response and fatigue life are examined. Obtaining accurate subsurface stress results for anisotropic single-crystal contact problems require extremely refined 3D finite element grids, especially in the edge of contact region. Obtaining resolved shear stresses on the principal slip planes also involves considerable postprocessing work. For these reasons, it is very advantageous to develop analytical solution schemes for subsurface stresses, whenever possible.
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Subsurface Stress Fields in Face-Centered-Cubic Single-Crystal Anisotropic Contacts
Nagaraj K. Arakere,
Nagaraj K. Arakere
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
e-mail: nagaraj@ufl.edu
University of Florida
, Gainesville, FL 32611-6300
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Erik Knudsen,
Erik Knudsen
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
University of Florida
, Gainesville, FL 32611-6300
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Gregory R. Swanson,
e-mail: greg.swanson@nasa.gov
Gregory R. Swanson
NASA Marshall Space Center Flight Center
, ED22, Structural Mechanics Group, Huntsville, AL
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Gilda Ham-Battista
Gilda Ham-Battista
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Nagaraj K. Arakere
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
University of Florida
, Gainesville, FL 32611-6300e-mail: nagaraj@ufl.edu
Erik Knudsen
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
University of Florida
, Gainesville, FL 32611-6300
Gregory R. Swanson
NASA Marshall Space Center Flight Center
, ED22, Structural Mechanics Group, Huntsville, ALe-mail: greg.swanson@nasa.gov
Gregory Duke
Gilda Ham-Battista
J. Eng. Gas Turbines Power. Oct 2006, 128(4): 879-888 (10 pages)
Published Online: November 3, 2005
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August 2, 2004
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November 3, 2005
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Arakere, N. K., Knudsen, E., Swanson, G. R., Duke, G., and Ham-Battista, G. (November 3, 2005). "Subsurface Stress Fields in Face-Centered-Cubic Single-Crystal Anisotropic Contacts." ASME. J. Eng. Gas Turbines Power. October 2006; 128(4): 879–888. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.2180276
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