Moving extremum surrogate modeling strategy for dynamic reliability estimation of turbine blisk with multi-physics fields

To improve the dynamic reliability analysis of complex structures like turbine blisk, moving extremum surrogate modeling strategy (MESMS) is proposed in respect of multi-physics coupling with various dynamics/uncertainties. In this strategy, extremum thought is adopted to handle the dynamic process of input parameters and output response, and the importance sampling (IS) method is utilized to extract efficient samples and improve the efficiency of dynamic reliability estimation, and moving least square (MLS) method is used to select good samples from training samples with local compact support region to establish a precise surrogate model. The dynamic reliability analysis of turbine blisk radial deformation with fluid-thermo-structural interaction is performed to validate the developed MESMS in approximate precision and simulation performance by comparing to other methods. As shown in this study, (i) the reliability degree of turbine blisk is 0.9975 when the allowable value of radial deformation is 2.6856 x 10(-3) m subject to 3 sigma levels; (ii) the proposed MESMS processes high modeling accuracy and efficiency due to small error; (iii) the MESMS holds high simulation performance in efficiency and accuracy owing to outstanding computational consumption and simulation. These results demonstrate that the MESMS is effective and applicable in structural reliability estimation regarding dynamics and uncertainties. The efforts of this paper provide a useful insight for performing the reliability-based design optimization of complex structures besides turbine blisk. (C) 2020 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.