NUMERICAL STUDY AND ANALYSIS OF GAS TURBINE BLADES

Gas turbine has great importance in the modern engineering applications, and it is the main element in the process of electric power generation. This paper presents a numerical analysis for gas turbine rotor blades to understand the behavior of gas turbine blades under the loads. The simulation was achieved by using solidworks 2018 and the numerical analysis by using ANSYS 15. Two materials were chosen to manufacture the gas turbine, which were Aluminum Alloy and Titanium Alloy under various values of load (5000,10000,15000)N to get many parameters such stress, total deformation, strain and shear stress. The results showed that by increasing the loads, all the values of obtained parameters were increased and it could be concluded that titanium alloy withstand the load more the aluminum alloy, and therefore it is recommended to use titanium alloy in manufacturing the gas turbine blades.