Turbocharger Compressor Wheels Why Use （涡轮增压器压缩机车轮为什么使用）.pdfVIP

Dr. Bertold Engels Lifetime prediction for Turbocharger Compressor Wheels - Why Use Titanium-? A cademy provided by: DIESELUSAGROUP® more info available at: www.DieselUSA.com INTRODUCTION The trend towards using smaller highly charged diesel engines continues. The advantages regarding fuel consumption and emissions as well as installation dimensions and weight are evident. Often such engines are installed in delivery trucks, city buses and light duty trucks. The common characteristics of such applications are high cyclic loading. In most cases of cyclic loaded applications the lifetime determinant component in today‘s commercial diesel turbochargers is the aluminium alloy compressor wheel. It therefore requires a very close look at the lifetime of the compressor wheel. The damage mechanism is based on material fatigue under cyclic loading at low frequency. This phenomenon is known as “Low Cycle Fatigue“. LOW CYCLE FATIGUE (LCF) From the industrial revolution circa 1830 there have been failures in mining and railway applications which could not be explained from the standpoint of static loads. Since then scientists have tried to explain material and component behaviour under time dependent variable load. Today we distinguish between time dependent loading and fatigue at high frequency (HCF) and low frequency (LCF). The operating life until failures occur can be significantly different. The damage mechanisms are very similar but never the less a closed theory of fatigue behaviour was not available until today. Professor Otto Buxbaum, former director of LBF (which is part of the Fraunhofer-Institute) in Darmstadt/Germany, is a well known German scientist in the field of material and component fatigue in operational conditions and stated that: “The coming into being of vibration fatigue failu