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Analysis of Steam Turbine Blade Failure Causes

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The steam turbine blade is generally failed due to crack which is effect of fatigue, corrosion, pitting and creep. A various researchers have done the failure investigation of steam turbine blades and its reveal the common failure mechanisms which are revived in this paper. A various case studies are tried to summarize here which will be helpful for giving idea for life enhancement of blade. This investigation deals with the recent various failures especially in the low pressure steam turbine blades which show varying load conditions, vibrations, pitting, corrosion and fatigue are causes for crack initiation leads to failure.

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The Author is grateful to Mr. Hemant Bari, member of condition monitoring society of India for giving valuable knowledge related to steam turbine blade.

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    Kale Dipak Rajendra & Rachayya Arakerimath

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, CMR Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

    Vinit Kumar Gunjan

  2. MMM University of Technology, Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India

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  3. Electronics and Telecommunication Faculty, University of Engineering and Technology (UET), Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Vietnam

    Tran Duc-Tan

  4. Department of Computing, University Cooperativa de Colombia, Neiva, Colombia

    Gloria Jeanette Rincon Aponte

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Rajendra, K.D., Arakerimath, R. (2020). Analysis of Steam Turbine Blade Failure Causes. In: Gunjan, V., Singh, S., Duc-Tan, T., Rincon Aponte, G., Kumar, A. (eds) ICRRM 2019 – System Reliability, Quality Control, Safety, Maintenance and Management. ICRRM 2019. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8507-0_8

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