Failure analysis of a weld repaired steam turbine casing

Engineering Failure Analysis

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 205-218

  Ghosh Chowdhury, S ^a   Mukhopadhyay, N K ^a   Das, G ^a   Das, S K ^a   Bhattacharya, D K ^a  

^a NATIONAL METALLURGICAL LABORATORY   (India)

Author keywords

Embrittlement; Heat affected zone; Power plant failure; Thermal fatigue; Weld

Indexed keywords

CRACK PROPAGATION; DEGRADATION; EMBRITTLEMENT; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FERRITES; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; HEAT AFFECTED ZONE; HIGH TEMPERATURE PROPERTIES; MICROCRACKS; PEARLITE; THERMAL EXPANSION; WELDS;

SCHAEFFER DIAGRAM; STEAM TURBINE CASING;

STEAM TURBINES;

FAILURE ANALYSIS; STEAM TURBINE; WELD;

EID: 0344492775     PISSN: 13506307     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1350-6307(98)00018-1     Document Type: Article

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