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XV Portuguese Conference on Fracture, PCF 2016, 10-12 February 2016, Paço de Arcos, Portugal Thermo-mechanical modeling of a high pressure turbine blade of an airplane gas turbine engine P. Brandão a , V. Infante b , A.M. Deus c * a Department of Mechanical Engineering, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal b IDMEC, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal c CeFEMA, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal Abstract During their operation, modern aircraft engine components are subjected to increasingly demanding operating conditions, especially the high pressure turbine (HPT) blades. Such conditions cause these parts to undergo different types of time-dependent degradation, one of which is creep. A model using the finite element method (FEM) was developed, in order to be able to predict the creep behaviour of HPT blades. Flight data records (FDR) for a specific aircraft, provided by a commercial aviation company, were used to obtain thermal and mechanical data for three different flight cycles. In order to create the 3D model needed for the FEM analysis, a HPT blade scrap was scanned, and its chemical composition and material properties were obtained. The data that was gathered was fed into the FEM model and different simulations were run, first with a simplified 3D rectangular block shape, in order to better establish the model, and then with the real 3D mesh obtained from the blade scrap. The overall expected behaviour in terms of displacement was observed, in particular at the trailing edge of the blade. Therefore such a model can be useful in the goal of predicting turbine blade life, given a set of FDR data. Copyright © 2017 The Auth rs. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article u der the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer-review under responsibility of the Scientific Committee of IGF Ex-Co. XXIV Italian Group of Fracture Conference, 1-3 March 2017, Urbino, Italy Non-localized creep assessment of V-notched components: a review P. Gallo a , F. Berto b,* , S.M.J. Razavi b , M.R. Ayatollahi c a Department of Mechanical Engineering, Aalto University, Marine Technology, Puumiehenkuja 5A, Espoo 02150, Finland. b Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Richard Birkelands vei 2b, 7491, Trondheim, Norway. c Department of Mechanical Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, Narmak, 16846, Tehran, Iran. Abstract Geometrical discontinues such as notches need to be carefully analysed by engineers because of the stress concentration generated by them. Notches become even more important when the component is subjected, in service, to very severe conditions, such as the high temperature fatigue and imposed visco-plastic behaviour such as creep. The aim of the paper is to present an improvement and extension of the existing notch tip creep stress-strain analysis method developed by Nuñez and Glinka, validated for U-notches only, to a wide variety of blunt V-notches. The key in getting the extension to blunt V-notches is the assumption of the generalized Lazzarin-Tovo solution that allows a unified approach to the evaluation of linear elastic stress fields in the neighbourhood of both cracks and notches. Numerous examples have been analysed up to date, and the stress fields obtaine according to the propose method were compared with appropriate finite element data, showing a very good agreement. In view of the promising results, authors are considering possible further extension of the method to sharp V-notches and cracks introducing the concept of the Strain Energy Density (SED). © 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. Peer-review under responsibility of the Scientific Committee of ECF21. Keywords: Creep, V-notches, stress fields, sress evaluation, strain energy density. 1. Introduction Because of technological progress demanding service conditions, engineering components are becoming more complex geometry-wise including various geometrical discontinuities (e.g. notches) that generate localized high stress ,* b c a t t f i l i i , lt i it , i l , i j , , i l . b t t f i l I t i l i i , i i it f i l ( ), i i l i , 7491, Trondheim, Norway. c t t f i l i i , I i it f i l , , , , I . t i l i ti t t ll l i t t nt ti t t . t i t t t t i j t , i i , t iti , t i t t ti i i l ti i ch as creep. i t i t t i t t i t i ti t ti t t i l i method l li , li t t l , t i i t l t t . i tti t t i t l t t i t ti t li i l ti t t ll i i t t l ti li l ti t i l i t i t t . l l t t , t t i l t i i t t t it i t i it l t t , i t. i t i i lt , t i i i l t t i t t t t i t i t t t t i it . © 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. P r- i i ilit t i ti i itt . : Creep, V-notches, stress fields, sress evaluation, strain energy density. . i of technolo i l i i iti , i i t i l t i i l i i t i l i ti iti . . t t t t l li i t © 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. Peer-review under responsibility of the Scientific Committee of PCF 2016. Keywords: High Pressure Turbine Blade; Creep; Finite Element Method; 3D Model; Simulation.

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2452-3216 © 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. Peer-review under responsibility of the Scientific Committee of PCF 2016. Copyright © 2017 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ ). Peer-review under responsibility of the Scientific Committee of IGF Ex-Co. 10.1016/j.prostr.2017.04.014