Emergingadvanced Technologies to Assess Reliability of Industrial Steamturbine Blade Design

Probabilistic Lifing Leader of GE Oil & Gas, in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, for all products in the Chief Engineers’Office. He has been involved in the design, development, and analysis of industrial turbomachinery for more than 30 years at Turbodyne Corporation, Dresser Industries, Dresser Rand Company, and, most recently, with Safe Technical Solutions Inc., where he served as Director of Engineering Technology. Dr. Singh has extensive knowledge and experience with fatigue and fracture mechanics, stress and vibration of structures, reliability, life analysis, and probabilistic analysis. His practical application experience includes a variety of rotating equipment including warm gas and FCC expanders, steam turbines, and centrifugal compressors. Dr. Singh holds B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees, and he has authored more than 30 technical papers on a variety of topics related to turbomachinery. Notably, Dr. Singh developed the widely used SAFE diagram for reliability evaluation of turbine blades.