International audienceThe safety of turbomachines requires controlling the risks caused by contacts occurring between fixed and rotating parts. Undesirable phenomena induced by bladed wheel/casing interactions are caused by the forced excitation of the natural modes of a blade leading to its damage or by potentially dangerous couplings between the modes of the casing and those of the wheel. Rotor-stator contacts may also lead to various types of dangerous behavior, including the well known configurations of dry whirl and dry whip. The paper proposes a large-scale literature review and examines existing numerical models and experimental setups used for highlighting the phenomenology involved in different rotor to stator contacts configurations. It confirms the great complexity of the problems which, by nature, are considerably nonlinear and involve multiphysics and multiscale coupled behaviors

In order to mitigate high cycle fatigue risks in bladed disks, the prediction of the vibration levels early in the design process is important. Therefore, the different sources of damping need to be modeled accurately. In this paper the impact of friction in blade attachments on forced response is investigated both numerically and experimentally. An efficient multiharmonic balance method is proposed in order to compute the forced response of bladed disks with contact and friction nonlinearities in blade roots. For experimental validation purposes, a rotating bladed disk was tested in a vacuum chamber, with excitation being provided by piezoelectric actuators. A model of the rig was built and numerical results were obtained with a normal load dependent coefficient of friction and a constant material damping ratio. Nonlinear behavior observed experimentally at resonances was well reproduced and an acceptable correlation was found with experimental resonant frequencies, amplitudes, and amount of damping throughout the spinning speed and excitation level range. The proposed numerical method can therefore serve to enhance the prediction of the alternating stresses in bladed disk assemblies.

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