A Retirement-for-Cause Study of an Engine Turbine Disk
Abstract
This report describes a procedure which allows for the retirement of turbine engine disks for actual life exhaustion rather than a statistical minimum limit of a population. The procedure is applied to the third stage turbine disk of the TF33 engine for demonstration purposes. The demonstration included detailed stress and fracture analysis in addition to actual spin pit testing. All spin pit testing was done by the Navy at the Naval Propulsion Center. The effort was a technical success but could not be implemented for the TF33 engine for logistic reasons.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Nov 01, 1981
- Accession Number
- ADA109724
Entities
People
- Jon S. Ogg
- Richard J. Hill
- Walter H. Reimann
Organizations
- Wright Laboratory