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Vibration Tests of a Turbine Blade with Internal Damping Manufactured using Additive Technology Cover

Vibration Tests of a Turbine Blade with Internal Damping Manufactured using Additive Technology

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|Jun 2026

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Figure 1.

Internal blade structure (middle), powder-filled pocket with damping elements (left), and cross-section of the manufactured blade prototype (right).

Figure 2.

Blade mounted in the fixture on the shaker and view of the measuring system.

Figure 3.

Test stand: E-390 shaker and heads of the PSV 500 3D scanning vibrometer.

Figure 4.

Measurement point grid for vibration mode shape acquisition.

Figure 5.

Mode shapes obtained from vibration testing.

Figure 6.

Test stand for measuring vibration damping.

Figure 7.

Amplitude-frequency characteristics of the Lattice and Solid blades.

Figure 8.

Determination of vibration damping by the half-power method (Braun et al., 2002).

Figure 9.

Solid blade frequency characteristics for various amplitude of excited vibrations (1st mode).

Figure 10.

Lattice blade frequency characteristics for various amplitude of excited vibrations (1st mode).

Figure 11.

Damping ratio as a function of excited vibration amplitude (Moneta et al., 2022b).

Damping ratio for excitation amplitude 1g_

ObjectMode
1234
Solid Bladeζ [Hz]0.160.280.110.06
Lattice Bladeζ [Hz]0.860.530.290.72
Damping increase5.4×1.9×2.6×12×

Natural frequencies of the blades obtained from experimental testing_

ObjectMode
1234
Solid Bladef [Hz]1076252937454928
Lattice Bladef [Hz]1019229333574463
Relative Difference−5%−9%−10%−9%
Language: English
Submitted on: Dec 31, 2024
Accepted on: Feb 3, 2026
Published on: Jun 6, 2026
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

© 2026 Sławomir Cieślak, Grzegorz Moneta, Michał Szmidt, Wiesław Krzymień, Andrzej Leski, Michał Fedasz, published by ŁUKASIEWICZ RESEARCH NETWORK – INSTITUTE OF AVIATION
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