Convergent zone-refinement method for risk assessment of gas turbine disks subject to low-frequency metallurgical defects

Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power

Volumn 129, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 827-835

  Millwater, Harry R ^a   Enright, Michael P ^b   Fitch, Simeon H K ^c  

^a The University of Texas at San Antonio   (United States)

^b SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c Mustard Seed Software   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DEFECTS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRACTURE; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

CONVERGENT ZONE-REFINEMENT METHOD; GAS TURBINE DISKS; LOW-FREQUENCY METALLURGICAL DEFECTS;

GAS TURBINES;

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DEFECTS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRACTURE; GAS TURBINES; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 34848815898     PISSN: 07424795     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2431393     Document Type: Article

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