Modal Testing and Finite Element Analysis of Crack Effects on Turbine Blades

Subject Areas : Engineering

K.R.P Babu ¹ ( Research Scholar, Department of Mechanical Engineering, JNTUK Kakinada, India---- Department of Mechanical Engineering, KLEF University, Guntur, India )
B.R Kumar ² ( Department of Mechanical Engineering, KLEF University, Guntur, India )
K.M Rao ³ ( Department of Mechanical Engineering, JNTUK Kakinada, India )

Received: 2016-06-27 Accepted : 2016-08-23 Published : 2016-09-20

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