Project Abstract
The Portable Blade Vibration Monitor (PBVM) is a system designed to market a
new technology for gas turbine health management. By inducing and monitoring
vibrations in the blades of an axial turbomachine the system will be able to
determine the presence of foreign object damage (FOD) or a crack in the
rotary portion of the turbomachine. Early detection of these problems will
help prevent catastrophic damage of gas turbine engines. This project is the
display piece for this technology and is therefore the tip of the spear in
the fight against catastrophic failure. The project has presented several
design challenges and two key issues which needed to be resolved.
Non-contact excitation of the turbomachine blades and the thermal load which
this technique will introduce are serious questions unable to be answered at
this junction
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