Reverse engineering of turbine blades based on design intent
Publication: Research - peer-review › Journal article – Annual report year: 2007
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The purpose of this paper is to describe a new approach to process the data points measured from turbine blade airfoils in order to make a valid shape via reverse engineering method. Currently, preliminary B-rep models can be created by fitting surfaces to point clouds using a 3D laser scanner. In case of a turbine blade, due to high shape complexity, the resulting model is often unsuitable in practice. A small change in blade geometry can lead to a large change in turbine performance. Therefore, control of the blade shape is critical to the design process. Authors believe that the only way to capture the valid shape of a blade airfoil out of the many manufacturing deviations is to incorporate design key-points during reverse engineering. Implementation of the new method using segmentation and constrained fitting algorithm (SCFA) on a heavy-duty industrial gas turbine blade has been reported and discussed.
| Original language | English |
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| Journal | International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology |
| Publication date | 2007 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Journal number | 9-10 |
| Pages | 1009-1020 |
| ISSN | 0268-3768 |
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| State | Published |
| Citations | Web of Science® Times Cited: 7 |
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