Volume -I , Issue -VI, August 2014

FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS ON AXIAL COMPRESSOR BLADE

Shruthi J. H. , Ravi Kiran B. S.v

Compressor is one of the most important part in gas turbine. The compressor has compressor blades which compress the gas which flows from the inlet and leaves the gas with higher temperature and pressure to the outlet. The project is to design and analysis of compressor blade. CATIA is used to design the solid model and ANSYS for analysis for Finite Element model generation by applying boundary condition which also includes specific post-processing and life assessment of the blade. However the program makes effective use of the ANSYS Pre-processor to mesh complex compressor blade geometries and apply boundary conditions. The objective of the current task is to perform the Static and Dynamic (modal) analysis to know the stress and strain at the high temperature zone.

Compressor blade, Design, CATIA, ANSYS, Static analysis, Dynamic analysis.

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