THERMAL SCIENCE
International Scientific Journal
FRACTURE MECHANICS ANALYSIS OF DAMAGED TURBINE ROTOR DISCS USING FINITE ELEMENT METHOD
ABSTRACT
This paper presents evaluation fracture mechanics parameters in low pressure turbine components. Critical locations such as keyway and dovetail area are experiencing stress concentration leading to crack initiation. Stress intensity factors were evaluated using the J-Integral approach available within ANSYS software code. The finite element method allowed the prediction of the point of crack initiation and the crack propagation using the orientations of the maximum principal stresses. Special attention in this investigation is focused to develop analytic expressions for stress intensity factors at critical location of low pres-sure steam turbine disc. [Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br. I-174001 i br. TR-35045]
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PAPER SUBMITTED: 2012-11-07
PAPER REVISED: 2013-03-05
PAPER ACCEPTED: 2013-09-30
PUBLISHED ONLINE: 2014-07-06
THERMAL SCIENCE YEAR
2014, VOLUME
18, ISSUE
Supplement 1, PAGES [S107 - S112]
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