Elastic analysis of the rotating FGM spool drum of the axial compressor in aero gas turbine engine

In this paper, an exact analysis of a axial compressor’s spool of a gas turbine engine has been presented to calculate stresses, strains and displacements. Spool analysis is investigated for both homogeneous and functionally graded material (FGM) states and spool is subjected to centrifugal force and uniform radial loadings at internal and external surfaces. In FGM state, materal properties including Young's modulus and density considered variable along the radius direction. Because the Poisson’s ratio variation ranges are insignificant, it considered constant for all states. Stresses, strains and displacements for both homogeneous and FGM with different non-homogeneous coefficients has been calculated. The results shown that using FGM material with suitable non-Homogeneous coefficient can lead to significant improvement in spool’s safety factor and reduction of displacements, strains and stresses in comparison with homogeneous state. On the other hand, using inappropriate FGM coefficients can lead to safety factor reduction and even structure failure. For particular investigated spool, calculated stresses in FGM with negative coefficients are less than homogeneous state and can cause failure in spool, while improvement in safety factor and displacements reduction observed using FGM with positive coefficients in comparison with homogeneous state.