Analysis of the Fracture of a Turbine Blade

Subject Areas : Engineering

A.R Shourangiz Haghighi ¹ , S Rahmanian ² , A Shamsabadi ³ , A zare ⁴ , I Zare ⁵

1 - Department of Mechanical Engineering, Jahrom University
2 - Department of Mechanical Engineering, Jahrom University
3 - College of Engineering, Shiraz Branch, Islamic Azad University
4 - Department of Mechanical Engineering, Shiraz University
5 - College of Engineering, Shiraz Branch, Islamic Azad University

Received: 2016-02-18 Accepted : 2016-04-05 Published : 2016-06-30

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