On real-time fatigue damage prediction for steam turbine

Metallurgical fatigue failure analysis of the brazed steam turbine blade

In this paper, failure mechanism of a 17th stage blade of an 82.5 MW steam turbine that caused damage to the internal turbine compartment and the adjacent blade equipment has been studied. In order to determine the cause of failure and prevent similar events, various metallurgical and mechanical investigations including chemical composition analysis, metallography and microstructural analysis, ...

Metallurgical fatigue failure analysis of the brazed steam turbine blade

In this paper, failure mechanism of a 17th stage blade of an 82.5 MW steam turbine that caused damage to the internal turbine compartment and the adjacent blade equipment has been studied. In order to determine the cause of failure and prevent similar events, various metallurgical and mechanical investigations including chemical composition analysis, metallography and microstructural analysis, ...

Steam Turbine Steam System

Prediction of unsteady loading on a steam turbine blade

A single rotor CFD model using wall-modeled Large Eddy Simulations (LES) was performed to predict the unsteady loading on the blade surface under partial admission. Geometry of the rotor blade of high pressure steam turbine of a 500 MW fossil-fuel power plant was used for this study. Periodically changing inlet boundary model was developed for single rotor model to simplify a full annular of th...

Efficient probabilistic methods for real-time fatigue damage prognosis

A general probabilistic fatigue crack growth prediction methodology for accurate and efficient damage prognosis is proposed in this paper. This methodology consists two major parts. First, the realistic random loading is transformed to an equivalent constant amplitude loading process based on a recently developed mechanism model. This transformation avoids the cycle-by-cycle calculation of fati...