The results of an experimental investigation on the vibrational behaviour of a rotating disk are reported. This disk is a prototype that simulates a component of an aircraft engine. The air flow through the gap between the edge of the disk and the casing, produced because of the pressure difference between the upstream and downstream parts of the disk, might force the disk to flutter under certain circumstances. This situation is simulated in a wind tunnel. The main goal of the tests is to evaluate the vibrational behaviour of a rotating disk, obtaining the correspondence between the vibration frequencies of the disk and the pressure differences when the disk is rotating at diverse speeds. An innovative noncontact technique is utilised, which employs three optical sensors that are angularly equidistributed on the casing of the wind tunnel. In order to verify the results given by the optical sensors, a strain gauge was mounted on the surface of the rotating disk. The results show a perfect agreement between the vibration frequencies detected by both kinds of sensors, proving that the combination of both allows the calculation of the nodal diameter corresponding to the vibration of the disk.

Date Published: 22 June 2015
PDF: 7 pages
Proc. SPIE 9525, Optical Measurement Systems for Industrial Inspection IX, 95251Z (22 June 2015); doi: 10.1117/12.2185273

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 9525:
Optical Measurement Systems for Industrial Inspection IX
Peter Lehmann; Wolfgang Osten; Armando Albertazzi Gonçalves Jr., Editor(s)