The present invention relates to a turbine moving blade having an integral cover at the tip of the blade.
Structures for connecting mutually adjacent turbine moving blades include an integral cover-blade structure that has connection covers (integral covers) integrally formed with blades and extending in a circumferential direction on the suction and pressure sides of the blades, and that connects blades by bringing the integral covers on the suction and pressure sides of mutually adjacent blades into contact. Such a blade connection structure has advantages in that the integral covers formed integrally with blades offers a superior resistance (strength) to centrifugal force and the like, and that friction at contact-connecting portions between integral covers provides a large vibration attenuation, thereby allowing a high-reliability blade connection structure to be provided.
An example of a conventional art of a turbine moving blade having an integral cover at the tip of blade is disclosed in Japanese Unexamined Patent Application Publication No. 5-98906. This patent document set forth a structure wherein the integral cover has a pair of suction and pressure sloped side-surfaces inclined relative to the direction of the rotational axis of a turbine, wherein the circumferential pitch of the suction and pressure side surfaces is made larger than the pitch that is obtained by dividing the circumference at a radial position of cover installation by the number of blades over the entire circumference (hereinafter, the latter pitch is referred to as a “geometric pitch”), and wherein the blades are torsionally deformed by being pressed along the circumferential direction of the turbine for assembly, thereby restraining a reaction force against it to strongly connect mutually adjacent blades.
When assembling blades having these integral covers by pressing the blades along the circumferential direction, since the pitch of the covers in the circumferential direction is made larger than the geometric pitch, a reaction force inevitably occurs in the covers. As a result, the blade located at the end position of the train of blades in the process of being assembled (hereinafter, such a blade is referred to as an “end blade”) is subjected to a reaction force only on either one of the suction sloped surface and pressure sloped surface. Hence, the end blade attempts to leave an adjacent blade in the direction away from the adjacent blade, that is, in a manner such that the circumferential component of the reaction force acting on the contact surface becomes weak. This makes the assembly of the blades difficult. In particular, for the blade having high stiffness and small blade length, the reaction force acting along the circumferential direction is large, and therefore, when only the blade root is fixed by friction between a blade root hook and a disk groove, the suction and pressure sloped surfaces of the integral cover of an end blade, respectively located on the suction and pressure sides of adjacent blades, are subjected to forced displacement, resulting in bending deformation of the blade. Consequently, a high stress acts on the basal portion between the cover portion and blade portion. In addition, due to a circumferential force component corresponding to the bending deformation, the blades are bending-deformed in the direction opposite to the direction to assemble blade. This not only makes the assembling of blades difficult but also produces nonuniform contact between the blade root hook and disk groove, thereby causing a high stress therebetween. The blade root hooks and disk grooves support large centrifugal forces acting on the blades during rotation of the turbine. Therefore, when the turbine is rotated at a high speed with a high stress acted on at the time of assembling, strength problem might occur.
Accordingly, the object of this invention is to provide a turbine moving blade capable of being easily assembled, reducing a stress produced at the basal portion between an integral cover and a blade portion, and suppressing nonuniform contact of the engagement portion between the blade root portion and the disk.
To achieve the above-described object, the turbine blade according to this invention is a turbine moving blade formed so as to restrain the elastic restoring force of the blades torsionally deformed at the time of installation of the moving blade by bringing the integral covers of mutually adjacent blades into contact. This integral cover is formed so that, as viewed from a radial direction, the normal of the suction sloped surface passing through the mid point on the contact surface on the suction sloped surface in the direction of the sloped surface and orthogonally intersecting the sloped surface does not cross the blade portions.
Specifically, the turbine blade according to this invention includes a blade portion extending from the basal portion to the tip of the moving blade, a blade root portion formed at the basal portion of the blade portion and engaged with a corresponding disk groove of a turbine rotor on a one-by-one basis, and an integral cover formed at the tip of the blade portion integrally with the blade portion. Herein, the integral cover includes at least a pair of pressure and suction sloped surfaces inclined relative to the direction of the rotational axis of a turbine so as to restrain the elastic restoring force of the blades torsionally deformed at the time of installation of the moving blade by bringing the integral covers of mutually adjacent blades into contact. This integral cover is formed so that, as viewed from a radial direction, the normal of the suction sloped surface passing through the mid point on the contact surface on the suction sloped surface in the direction of the sloped surface and orthogonally intersecting the sloped surface does not cross the blade portion.
Hereinafter, embodiments according to the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
Next, the shape of the integral cover 3 will be described with reference to
More specifically, letting the normal extended toward the outside of the surface of the integral cover 3 be an outward normal, and letting the normal extended toward the inside of the surface of the integral cover 3 be an inward normal, in this illustrated embodiment, the suction sloped surface 8 constituting the contact surface with an integral shroud portion of an adjacent blade is formed so that, inside the integral cover 3, the inward normal extended toward the upstream side of the turbine axial direction 31 does not cross the blade profile portion 1.
Now, force and moment generated in the cover portion of the moving blade having such an integral cover will be described with reference in
Here, a conventional integral cover will be explained with reference to
Specifically, the forced displacement in the vertical direction relative to the suction sloped surface 8, which has been given to the suction sloped surface 8, is discomposed into the torsional deformation and bending deformation of the blade, and the bending deformation of the end blade 1′ becomes small. This allows circumferential bending generated in the blade at the time of assembling to be reduces, and inhibits the occurrence of nonuniform contact between the blade root hook 6 and the disk groove at the time of assembling, thereby preventing a large stress from occurring. As a result, it is possible to provide a turbine blade capable of being easily assembled and having high reliability.
In the integral cover 3 of an end blade 1″ located on the pressure side of an adjacent blade, the pressure sloped surface 9 is given a forced displacement in the vertical direction relative to the sloped surface, but the trailing edge of the blade is low in stiffness and the blade undergoes a torsional deformation, thereby presenting no problem.
If the rotational direction of turbine moving blade is opposite to that of the turbine moving blade described in
The suction sloped surface 8 is set up so that the inward normal 14 passing through the mid point on the contact surface on the suction sloped surface 8 and orthogonally intersecting the sloped surface does not cross the blade profile on the suction blade side of the end blade 1′ having a sloped surface, as seeing the integral cover 3 from the outer peripheral side in the radial direction. On the other hand, the pressure sloped surface 9 is set up so that the inward normal 14 passing through the mid point on the contact surface on the pressure sloped surface 9 and orthogonally intersecting the sloped surface does not cross the blade profile on the pressure blade side of the end blade 1″ having a sloped surface.
More specifically, in this illustrated embodiment, the suction sloped surface 8 constituting a contact surface with the integral shroud portion of an adjacent blade is formed so that the inward normal 11 of an integral cover 3′, on the perpendicular 14 passing through the mid point of the contact surface on the suction sloped surface 8 and orthogonally intersecting the suction sloped surface 8, does not cross the profile portion of the blade 1′. Also, the pressure sloped surface 9 pairing off with the suction sloped surface 8 is formed so that the inward normal 12 of an integral cover 3″, on the perpendicular 14′ passing through the mid point of the contact surface on the pressure sloped surface 9 and orthogonally intersecting the pressure sloped surface 9, does not cross the profile portion of the blade 1″. This enables circumferential bending generated in the blade at the time of assembling, to be reduced, and prevents the occurrence of a large stress at the engagement portion between the disk groove 5 and the blade root hook 6, thereby allowing a turbine moving blade capable of being easily assembled and having high reliability to be provided.
If the rotational direction of turbine moving blade is opposite to that of the turbine moving blade described in
A turbine blade structure according to another embodiment of the present invention will now be described with reference to
When assembling moving blades by sliding them along the circumferential direction one after another, in a state where a load in the circumferential direction has been caused to act on the cover portion, in the integral cover 3 of the end blade 1′ located on the pressure side of an adjacent blade in the process of being assembled, the suction sloped surface 8 is given a forced displacement in the turbine axial direction, and an axial force 22 occurring in correspondence with an elastic restoring force of the blade acts on the integral cover 3. The axial force 22 is decomposed into a force component 23 in the sloped surface direction and a force component 24 in the direction vertical to the sloped surface. When a frictional force 25 represented by the force component 24 in the direction vertical to the sloped surface and the coefficient of static friction, exceeds the force component 23 in the sloped surface direction, circumferential bending of the blade can be inhibited even if the circumferential load which was caused to act on the blade at the time of assembling is released, thereby allowing the turbine blade to be easily assembled. The same goes for the end blade 1″ located on the suction side of an adjacent blade in the process of being assembled. Such an angle is referred to as a “friction angle”. Forming the integral cover so that the angle of the sloped surface becomes the friction angle or less, enables the circumferential bending generated in the blade at the time of assembling to be reduced, thereby preventing the occurrence of a large stress at the engagement portion between the disk groove 5 and blade root portion 6 at the time of assembling. This allows a turbine blade capable of being easily assembled and having high reliability to be provided.
Here, letting the static friction coefficient be 0.1, the friction angle becomes 6 degrees, and letting the static friction coefficient be 0.2, the friction angle becomes 12 degrees. The values 0.1 and 0.2 of the static friction are common as friction coefficients of a material. Because too small a sloped-surface angle enlarges stress concentration caused in a corner 35 of the integral cover, it is necessary to make the sloped surface angle as large as possible within the range of angle below the friction angle. Therefore, by making the angle of the sloped surface 6 to 12 degrees, the circumferential bending occurring in the blade can be made small, thereby allowing a turbine blade capable of being assembled and having high reliability to be provided.
Another embodiment according to the present invention is described with reference to
Regarding the turbine moving blade using the above-described integral cover 3, as shown in
In contrast to this, in this embodiment, as shown in
Next, another embodiment according to the present invention is described with reference to
In the illustrated combined cycle power generation plant, the steam turbine 45 has a plurality of turbine stages comprising moving blades and stationary blades as shown in
As described above, adopting the above-described turbine moving blade makes it possible to maintain the connection state between mutually adjacent blades for all blades over the entire perimeter throughout the time periods of assembly and driving. Moreover, by suppressing nonuniform contact between the blade root hook and the disk groove at the time of assembling, it is possible to reduce stress caused at the engagement portion and provide a high-reliability turbine moving blade structure.
The turbine moving blade according to the present invention is used for a power generation area for generating electric power.
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