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Vibration damping of aircraft propeller blades using shunted piezoelectric transducers

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Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

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Gas turbine engine blades experience vibrations due to the flow disturbances, these vibrations are critical to the engine durability and performance. Piezoelectric transducers (sensors and actuators) have been used for engine blade vibrations damping either through a passive or active vibration control. The propeller blades are part of turboprop engine and considered as one of the main source of turboprop engine vibrations. Piezoelectric blade damping ideas have been studied by other researchers for fan blades and compressor blades. In this research a vibration damping procedure using piezoelectric transducers applied to an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) composite propeller. Experimental investigation introduces an approach for the propeller vibration damping using piezoelectric transducers in conjunction with appropriate shunt circuit. Three thin piezoelectric transducers macro fiber composite (MFC) type PZT-5A are surface-mounted on the propeller, one at each blade. These transducers are placed at locations of high modal strain areas for the propeller first mode at each blade, where these locations are identified by finite element numerical simulation. Electronic resonance shunt circuit, resistor-inductor-capacitor type, for the piezoelectric transducers is designed and experimentally developed such that effective vibration suppression of the propeller is achieved. The experimental and numerical investigations in this research illustrate that piezoelectric transducers with appropriate shunt circuit reduces the aircraft propeller vibrations.

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10.1088/1757-899X/1172/1/012007

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Morad

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Egyptian Armed Forces, Cairo, Egypt.

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alaa_morad@yahoo.com

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Kamel

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Aircraft Mechanical Engineering Department, MTC, Cairo, Egypt.

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Khalil

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Aircraft Mechanical Engineering Department, MTC, Cairo, Egypt.

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19

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27988

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2021-04-01

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2021-10-04

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2021-04-01

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2090-0678

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2636-364X

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International Conference on Aerospace Sciences and Aviation Technology

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Vibration damping of aircraft propeller blades using shunted piezoelectric transducers

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22 Jan 2023