Dimensionering av bladförband på Kamewa CPP (Controllable Pitch Propeller)

Sammanfattning: The thesis project is accomplished during winter and spring 2008 at Karlstad University at the faculty of technology and science. The tutor at Karlstad University is Nils Hallbäck and the examiner is Hans Johansson. Rolls-Royce at Kristinehamn in Sweden is the initiator for the project. The thesis project title is design of the blade bolt joint on Kamewa CPP. CPP stands for controllable pitch propeller. The study include two main aspects which are to analyze if the blade bolt joint which is used today can be applied on a larger propeller and if there are better solutions or other possibilities to join the blade to the hub. First the classification rules of some institutes were studied to find out which limitations there are. Bolted joint has to exceed a minimum bending strength and the bolts have to be made out of steel and their strength has to be at least 10.9. Today Rolls-Royce use ten bolts per propeller, five on each side of the blade. To analyze the strength of the blade bolt joint connection a FEM and an analytic analyze were made and the results compared with each other. Two cases were examined, one for drift and two when hitting an iceberg. The results were similar to each other for FEM and the analytic analyze. At drift all bolts were under the tensile strength of 750 MPa but when using ice loads some bolts started to deform. A new concept for the bolt connection was tested. Again the stress in the bolts stayed under the tensile strength at drift but deformed when applying ice loads. A difference between analytical and FEM analysis was that the stress difference between the bolts were minor in the FEM method. Another concept was only studied with FEM and it had a geometric locking devise combined with the same blade bolt connection as Rolls-Royce use today. At drift the locking devise didn’t support the connection much but when applying ice loads less bolts started to deform and less material in the bolts reached the tensile limit. All three concepts showed stress concentrations at the first two or three threads. The differences between the three concepts weren’t that large and to get better results other possibilities have to be considered. It is important to know how much torque has to be applied on the screw to get the right amount of pretension. Three aspects to consider are to apply the torque without getting any torsion in the screw, to lower the moment with the right coating or lubricant and to avoid the stress concentrations at the threads. Superbolts and clampnuts are two possibilities to avoid torsion in the screws. By using screw thread inserts or tension optimized threads the stress in the thread gets optimized and a coating or lubricant with a low friction coefficient will lower the torque. Three possible solutions are suggested.