Vibration investigation for low pressure turbine last stage blade failure in steam turbines of a power plant

Proceedings of the ASME Turbo Expo

Volumn 7, Issue PARTS A AND B, 2012, Pages 363-371

  Sinha, Jyoti K ^a   Hahn, W ^b   Elbhbah, K ^a   Tasker, G ^b   Ullah, I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b EDF ENERGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAS TURBINES; OUTAGES; RETROFITTING; STEAM POWER PLANTS; TURBINE COMPONENTS; TURBOMACHINE BLADES;

BLADE FAILURE; EDF ENERGY; IN-SITU VIBRATIONS; LAST STAGE BLADES; LOW-PRESSURE TURBINES; POWER OUTPUT; POWER- GENERATIONS; ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS; TURBO-GENERATOR UNIT; TURBOGENERATOR SET;

STEAM TURBINES;

EID: 84881171248     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/GT2012-70129     Document Type: Conference Paper

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