STRENGTH OF TURBINE DISKS

This book is intended for engineers and scientific research personnel working in the field of steam and gas-turbine manufacturing. The book reviews theoretical principles of methods and experimental findings which serve for evaluating disk strength. The effect of properties of materials, systems of disks and operational conditions which affect disk strength are discussed and basic requirements which disk materials and systems have to satisfy are stressed. Special attention is paid to problems of preventing brittle and quasi-brittle failures of disks and other machine parts. (Author) Edited trans. of Prochnost Turbinnykh Diskov, Moscow, 1966 p1-151.