Ceramic radial turbine rotor

摘要

A ceramic radial turbine rotor made of a ceramic material having a strength s (kg/mm2) includes blade tips having a thickness t (mm). A product st2 of strength s and t2 (square of t) is representative of resistance to breakage of the rotor to foreign objects colliding against blades of the rotor. The product st2 fulfills a relation st2>/=5x104 vm+33. In this case, v is a circumferential speed of tip ends of inducers of blades of the rotating rotor when the blades are damaged by steel balls having a mass m (kg) colliding against the blades in a steel ball collision test of blades of a ceramic radial turbine rotor, and vm is a product of v and m.