Design and static analysis of 3-blade marine propeller

Fibre reinforced polymer composites in recent times are finding wide spread use in naval applications. Ships and under water vehicle requires propeller to drive the vehicle. The propellers are used as propulsions and it also used to develop indicative thrust to propel the vehicle at its viable speed and rpm. Which are created for moderate and deeper depths have need minimization of structural weight for maximizing payload, speed, operating range and performance. In recent years the increased requirement for the trifling structural element, has led to use of fiber reinforced composite propeller. This work is about the structural analysis of a basalt fiber reinforced plastic (BFRP) and Aluminum propeller blade. The propeller blade is modeled and designed such that it can with stand the static load distribution and finding the stresses and deflections for basalt fiber reinforced plastic material. This work generally directs to the Modeling and analysis of the propeller blade for its strength. Here different sections of a propeller is complex 3D model geometry are considered to form single blade using HydroComp PropCad and software static structur using section coordinate data 3D three blade propeller modeled in Solid Edge V20 and by using ANSYS al analysis were carried out.