Eddy Current Sensor System for Blade Tip Clearance Measurement Based on a Speed Adjustment Model
Blade tip clearance (BTC) measurement and active clearance control (ACC) are becoming crucial technologies in aero-engine health monitoring so as to improve the efficiency and reliability as well as to ensure timely maintenance. Eddy current sensor (ECS) offers an attractive option for BTC measureme...
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| author | Jiang Wu Bin Wen Yu Zhou Qi Zhang Shuiting Ding Farong Du Shuguang Zhang |
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| description | Blade tip clearance (BTC) measurement and active clearance control (ACC) are becoming crucial technologies in aero-engine health monitoring so as to improve the efficiency and reliability as well as to ensure timely maintenance. Eddy current sensor (ECS) offers an attractive option for BTC measurement due to its robustness, whereas current approaches have not considered two issues sufficiently. One is that BTC affects the response time of a measurement loop, the other is that ECS signal decays with increasing speed. This paper proposes a speed adjustment model (SAM) to deal with these issues in detail. SAM is trained using a nonlinear regression method from a dynamic training data set obtained by an experiment. The Levenberg⁻Marquardt (LM) algorithm is used to estimate SAM characteristic parameters. The quantitative relationship between the response time of ECS measurement loop and BTC, as well as the output signal and speed are obtained. A BTC measurement method (BTCMM) based on the SAM is proposed and a geometric constraint equation is constructed to assess the accuracy of BTC measurement. Experiment on a real-time BTC measurement during the running process for a micro turbojet engine is conducted to validate the BTCMM. It is desirable and significative to effectively improve BTC measurement accuracy and expand the range of applicable engine speed. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-257cface157543a9868cc53ee662bb4b2022-12-22T02:21:11ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202019-02-0119476110.3390/s19040761s19040761Eddy Current Sensor System for Blade Tip Clearance Measurement Based on a Speed Adjustment ModelJiang Wu0Bin Wen1Yu Zhou2Qi Zhang3Shuiting Ding4Farong Du5Shuguang Zhang6School of Transportation Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, ChinaSchool of Transportation Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, ChinaSchool of Transportation Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, ChinaSchool of Transportation Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, ChinaSchool of Energy and Power Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, ChinaSchool of Energy and Power Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, ChinaSchool of Transportation Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, ChinaBlade tip clearance (BTC) measurement and active clearance control (ACC) are becoming crucial technologies in aero-engine health monitoring so as to improve the efficiency and reliability as well as to ensure timely maintenance. Eddy current sensor (ECS) offers an attractive option for BTC measurement due to its robustness, whereas current approaches have not considered two issues sufficiently. One is that BTC affects the response time of a measurement loop, the other is that ECS signal decays with increasing speed. This paper proposes a speed adjustment model (SAM) to deal with these issues in detail. SAM is trained using a nonlinear regression method from a dynamic training data set obtained by an experiment. The Levenberg⁻Marquardt (LM) algorithm is used to estimate SAM characteristic parameters. The quantitative relationship between the response time of ECS measurement loop and BTC, as well as the output signal and speed are obtained. A BTC measurement method (BTCMM) based on the SAM is proposed and a geometric constraint equation is constructed to assess the accuracy of BTC measurement. Experiment on a real-time BTC measurement during the running process for a micro turbojet engine is conducted to validate the BTCMM. It is desirable and significative to effectively improve BTC measurement accuracy and expand the range of applicable engine speed.https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/19/4/761blade tip clearance (BTC)eddy current sensor (ECS)measurement methodnonlinear regressionspeed adjustment model (SAM) |
| spellingShingle | Jiang Wu Bin Wen Yu Zhou Qi Zhang Shuiting Ding Farong Du Shuguang Zhang Eddy Current Sensor System for Blade Tip Clearance Measurement Based on a Speed Adjustment Model Sensors blade tip clearance (BTC) eddy current sensor (ECS) measurement method nonlinear regression speed adjustment model (SAM) |
| title | Eddy Current Sensor System for Blade Tip Clearance Measurement Based on a Speed Adjustment Model |
| title_full | Eddy Current Sensor System for Blade Tip Clearance Measurement Based on a Speed Adjustment Model |
| title_fullStr | Eddy Current Sensor System for Blade Tip Clearance Measurement Based on a Speed Adjustment Model |
| title_full_unstemmed | Eddy Current Sensor System for Blade Tip Clearance Measurement Based on a Speed Adjustment Model |
| title_short | Eddy Current Sensor System for Blade Tip Clearance Measurement Based on a Speed Adjustment Model |
| title_sort | eddy current sensor system for blade tip clearance measurement based on a speed adjustment model |
| topic | blade tip clearance (BTC) eddy current sensor (ECS) measurement method nonlinear regression speed adjustment model (SAM) |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/19/4/761 |
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