Residual stress mapping in a steam turbine disk using the LCR ultrasonic technique

Materials Evaluation

Volumn 54, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 832-839

  Bray, Donald E ^b   Pathak, N ^b   Srinivasan, M N ^a  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Acoustics; Acoustoelastics; Nondestructive testing; Power generation; Steam turbine; Steel; Stress; Ultrasonic testing; Utility; X ray diffraction

Indexed keywords

NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; RESIDUAL STRESSES; STEAM TURBINES; STEEL TESTING; STRAIN GAGES; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE STRESS; ULTRASONIC TESTING; ELASTICITY; POWER GENERATION; STEEL; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ACOUSTOELASTIC; CIRCUMFERENTIAL STRESS; CRITICALLY REFRACTED LONGITUDINAL WAVES; FURTHER DEVELOPMENT; POWER- GENERATIONS; TRANSVERSE LOADING; TURBINE DISC; ULTRASONIC TECHNIQUES; UTILITY; X- RAY DIFFRACTIONS;

X RAY DIFFRACTION; DISKS (MACHINE COMPONENTS);

CRITICALLY REFRACTED LONGITUDINAL WAVE TECHNIQUE; STEAM TURBINE DISK; ULTRASONIC TESTING;

EID: 0030195019     PISSN: 00255327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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