Abstract: Thermal, mechanical and microstructural phenomena are involved in the process of steel quenching. Based on the coupled metallo-thermo-mechanics theory, a calculation model has been developed in this study to simulate the quenching process of a gas turbine compressor disk by finite element method. The thermal physical and mechanical properties were treated as a functions of temperature. Moreover, a series of subroutines were developed on the MARC software platform. Consequently, simulated results on temperature, internal stress and distortion during the quenching were illustrated. With the aid of the simulated results, an optimum quenching scheme was proposed. The quenching process simulated in this study appears to be a promising tool in design of heat-treatment processing parameters for gas turbine compressor disks.

Key words: Quenching stress, Distortion, Finite element method, Metallo-thermo-mechanics