| Vibration damping of aircraft propeller blades using shunted piezoelectric transducers |
| Paper ID : 1012-ASAT19-FULL (R2) |
| Authors: |
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Alaa Mohamed Morad *1, Mohamed Kamel2, Mohamed Khalil2 1Egyptian armed forces 2Aircraft mechanical engineering department, MTC, Egypt |
| Abstract: |
| Gas turbine engine blades experience vibrations due to the flow disturbances, these vibrations are critical to the engine durability and performance. Piezoelectric transducers (sensors and actuators) have been used for engine blade vibrations damping either through a passive or active vibration control. The propeller blades are part of turboprop engine and considered as one of the main source of turboprop engine vibrations. Piezoelectric blade damping ideas have been studied by other researchers for fan blades and compressor blades. In this paper a vibration damping technique utilizing piezoelectric transducers is applied to an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) composite propeller. Experimental investigation introduces an approach for the propeller vibration damping using piezoelectric transducers in conjunction with appropriate shunt circuit. Three thin piezoelectric transducers macro fiber composite (MFC) type PZT-5A are surface-mounted on the propeller, one at each blade. These transducers are placed at locations of high modal strain areas for the propeller first mode at each blade, where these locations are identified by finite element numerical simulation. Electronic resonance shunt circuit, resistor-inductor-capacitor type, for the piezoelectric transducers is designed and experimentally developed such that effective vibration suppression of the propeller is achieved. The experimental investigations and finite element modeling in this paper show that shunted piezoelectric vibration damping reduces the vibrations of aircraft propeller. |
| Keywords: |
| Aircraft propeller, piezoelectric shunt damping, finite element modeling, structure vibration damping |
| Status : Paper Accepted (Oral Presentation) |
