Modeling Behaviour of Damaged Turbine Blades for Engine Health Diagnostics and Prognostics

The reliability of modern gas turbine engines is largely due to careful damage tolerant design a method of structural design based on the assumption that flaws (cracks) exist in any structure and will continue to grow with usage. With proper monitoring, largely in the form of periodic inspections at...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Van Dyke, Jason
Other Authors: Nganbe, Michel
Language:en
Published: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa 2011
Subjects:
TBC
FEA
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10393/20312
http://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-4897