Residual Life Prediction of Gas-Engine Turbine Blades Based on Damage Surrogate-Assisted Modeling

Autor: Boris Vasilyev, Sergei Nikolaev, Mikhail Raevskiy, Sergei Belov, Ighor Uzhinsky
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Applied Sciences, Vol 10, Iss 23, p 8541 (2020)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2076-3417
DOI: 10.3390/app10238541
Popis: Blade damage accounts for a substantial part of all failure events occurring at gas-turbine-engine power plants. Current operation and maintenance (O&M) practices typically use preventive maintenance approaches with fixed intervals, which involve high costs for repair and replacement activities, and substantial revenue losses. The recent development and evolution of condition-monitoring techniques and the fact that an increasing number of turbines in operation are equipped with online monitoring systems offer the decision maker a large amount of information on the blades’ structural health. So, predictive maintenance becomes feasible. It has the potential to predict the blades’ remaining life in order to support O&M decisions for avoiding major failure events. This paper presents a surrogate model and methodology for estimating the remaining life of a turbine blade. The model can be used within a predictive maintenance decision framework to optimize maintenance planning for the blades’ lifetime.
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