LAPSE:2023.34833
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LAPSE:2023.34833
Wear and Leakage Behaviors of Brush Seal Considering Eccentricity and Radial Deformation
Yiren Xu, Ting Ma, Lingcheng Kong, Juying Zhao, Yongjian Li
April 28, 2023
Brush seals can improve engine performance by reducing leakage. Wear models of brush seals provide methods to predict wear and leakage. However, rotor eccentricity, radial deformation, and hysteresis effect of bristles are not considered systematically in the existing models, which may lead to large errors in some cases. To investigate the influence of rotor-stator eccentricity and radial deformation on the wear process and leakage performance of brush seal, a brush seal test was planned and executed, in which the air leakage rates were measured at different testing times and operating conditions, the eccentricity and radial deformation was measured using eddy current sensors. The test results showed that the eccentricity and radial deformation significantly affected the wear behavior and leakage performance. In the theoretical research, the abrasive wear equation is adopted to describe the material loss of bristles, and a simplified description is used to express the rotor-stator eccentric motions. To describe the effect of hysteresis on wear behavior, the deformation of the bristle pack is divided into rebounding deformation and locked deformation, and the two deformation modes are modeled separately. Then a brush seal wear model considering rotor-stator eccentricity and radial deformation is obtained, in which the hysteresis effect is especially represented. The wear model was verified quantitatively based on the brush seal test data, and the results show that there is an error of 20% with the calculated wear loss when rotor eccentricity, radial deformation, and hysteresis effect are comprehensively considered. In contrast, ignoring the hysteresis effect may increase the error by several times. This study provides a quantitative and practical method for predicting the wear and leakage of brush seals.
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abrasive wear, brush seal, hysteresis effect, rotor-stator eccentricity, wear model
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Xu Y, Ma T, Kong L, Zhao J, Li Y. Wear and Leakage Behaviors of Brush Seal Considering Eccentricity and Radial Deformation. (2023). LAPSE:2023.34833
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Xu Y: State Key Laboratory of Tribology in Advanced Equipment, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China [ORCID]
Ma T: Shenyang Engine Research Institute, Aero Engine Corporation of China, Shenyang 110015, China; Key Laboratory of Power Transmission Technology on Aero-Engine, Aero Engine Corporation of China, Shenyang 110015, China
Kong L: Shenyang Engine Research Institute, Aero Engine Corporation of China, Shenyang 110015, China; Key Laboratory of Power Transmission Technology on Aero-Engine, Aero Engine Corporation of China, Shenyang 110015, China
Zhao J: State Key Laboratory of Tribology in Advanced Equipment, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
Li Y: State Key Laboratory of Tribology in Advanced Equipment, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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Energies
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16
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8
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3394
Year
2023
Publication Date
2023-04-12
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1996-1073
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