Process Modelling of the Fabrication of Critical Rotating Components for Gas Turbine Applications
Abstract
The fabrication of rotating components for a gas turbine engine requires a number of different manufacturing processes: casting, thermal-mechanical shaping (from ingot or powder), heat-treatment, machining and joining. Numerical algorithms and advanced computer hardware/software are being used increasingly to simulate these manufacturing processes and the materials behaviour resulting from them that controls the service performance. The purpose of this paper is to provide the reader with a flavour of the range of research that is being carried out, the benefits that it confers and its current limitations. Finally, some challenges for the future are identified.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 01, 2003
- Accession Number
- ADP014156
Entities
People
- M. Mclean
- P. D. Lee
- R. C. Reed
Organizations
- University of Cambridge