17 November 2021 Tip-timing accuracy improvement using optical fiber bundle probe with GRIN lens under varying blade tip clearance
Fengyao Zhi, Fajie Duan, Zhibo Liu, Xiuming Li, Guangyue Niu, Jiajia Jiang
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Abstract

The blade tip-timing (BTT) method has become the industry standard in blade vibration measurement. It monitors blade vibration based on the different times of arrival (ToAs) between blade vibration and not. The optical fiber bundle (OFB) probe is widely used to obtain ToA because of its small size, fast response, and high tip-timing accuracy. ToA is usually obtained by comparing the received signal with a fixed threshold level. However, the varying blade tip clearance (BTC) will affect the received signal, which directly causes the tip-timing error. We propose an optical fiber probe with GRIN lens, which eliminates the tip-timing error caused by varying BTC through the constant-fraction discrimination (CFD) method. The model of the OFB probe with GRIN lens is first established. Model analysis indicates that ToA obtained by the proposed method is constant no matter how BTC changes. Finally, the accuracy of the model and the effectiveness of the method are verified by two experiments. When BTC varied from 1.5 to 3.5 mm, the maximum tip-timing errors of OFB probe without and with GRIN lens were 181.12  μs and 10.44  μs, respectively.

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Fengyao Zhi, Fajie Duan, Zhibo Liu, Xiuming Li, Guangyue Niu, and Jiajia Jiang "Tip-timing accuracy improvement using optical fiber bundle probe with GRIN lens under varying blade tip clearance," Optical Engineering 60(11), 114103 (17 November 2021). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.60.11.114103
Received: 21 August 2021; Accepted: 28 October 2021; Published: 17 November 2021
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KEYWORDS
GRIN lenses

Optical fibers

Error analysis

Collimation

Optical engineering

Signal to noise ratio

Interference (communication)

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