Rotating Machinery Design detailed syllabus for Mechanical Engineering (Mech) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the Mech students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
For Mechanical Engineering 6th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit Mech 6th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-V scheme and its subjects refer to Mech Professional Elective-V syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of rotating machinery design is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
INTRODUCTION 9 Overview of the different operational regimes for gas turbine applications: base load, peak load, standby and backup operations, alongside their individual operational requirements. Fundamentals of Creep and Fatigue damage mechanisms. Material, design and operational parameters that affect creep and fatigue. Experimental and test procedures to characterise creep and fatigue damage.
Unit II
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Unit III
FAILURE CRITERIA 9 Monotonic failure criteria: proof, ultimate strength. Theories of failure – bi-axial loads. Other failure mechanisms – gas turbine engines including creep and fatigue. Fatigue properties – SN and RM diagrams. Stress concentration, mean stress, Cumulative fatigue, Goodman diagram and safety factor for gas turbine components. Larson-Miller time-temperature parameter.
Unit IV
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Unit V
BLADE VIBRATIONS AND DAMAGE MECHANISMS 9 Natural frequencies turbomachine blades. Blade twist, centrifugal stiffening, Sources of blade excitation, Stationary flow disturbance, rotating stall and flutter. Campbell diagram and troublesome resonances. Allowances for temperature, pre-twist and centrifugal stiffening. Methods for dealing with resonances.
Course Outcomes:
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Text Books:
- A S Rangawala, Turbomachinery Dynamics-Design and operations, McGraw-Hill, 2005, ISBN-13: 978-0071453691.
- Design, Modeling and Reliability in Rotating Machinery, Robert X. Perez (Editor) ISBN: 978-1119-63169-9
Reference Books:
- P.P Walsh and P. Peletcher, Gas Turbine Performance Blackwell Science, 1998, ISBN:0632047843.
- Turbines, Compressors & Fans S. M. Yahya Tata McGraw Hill Co. Ltd 2nd edition, 2002
- Principals of Turbo machines D. G. Shepherd The Macmillan Company 1964
- Fluid Mechanics & Thermodynamics of Turbo machines S. L. Dixon Elsevier 2005
- Shaft Alignment Handbook (Mechanical Engineering) by John Piotrowski | 2 November 2006
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