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

Subject Areas : Engineering

K.R.P Babu ¹ , B.R Kumar ² , K.M Rao ³

1 - Research Scholar, Department of Mechanical Engineering, JNTUK Kakinada, India---- Department of Mechanical Engineering, KLEF University, Guntur, India
2 - Department of Mechanical Engineering, KLEF University, Guntur, India
3 - Department of Mechanical Engineering, JNTUK Kakinada, India

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

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