Operational causes of fatigue failures within passages of gas turbine engines

Prognosis of Faults in Gas Turbine Engines

A problem of interest to aircraft engine maintainers is the automatic detection, classification, and prediction (or prognosis) of potential critical component failures in gas turbine engines. Automatic monitoring offers the promise of substantially reducing the cost of repair and replacement of defective parts, and may even result in saving lives. Current processing for prognostic health monito...

Millimeter-scale, Mems Gas Turbine Engines

The confluence of market demand for greatly improved compact power sources for portable electronics with the rapidly expanding capability of micromachining technology has made feasible the development of gas turbines in the millimeter-size range. With airfoil spans measured in 100’s of microns rather than meters, these “microengines” have about 1 millionth the air flow of large gas turbines and...

Anomaly Detection in Aircraft Gas Turbine Engines

Design of Optimum Controllers for Gas Turbine Engines

This paper presents controllers based on linear and nonlinear models of an aircraft gas turbine engine. These models along with the performance indexes, ITAE, IAE and IES are used to estimate the parameters of a PID controller. The parameters and hence the quality of the controllers are very much dependent on the accuracy of the models. It is shown that the Nonlinear AutoRegressive Moving Avera...

H∞ control of microgrids involving gas turbine engines and batteries

This paper proposes a new power management control method for microgrids based on H∞ control theory. Microgrid systems consist of distributed power sources such as cogeneration systems and photovoltaic systems with batteries. In general, power generation by photovoltaic systems and power consumption of various loads cause large fluctuations depending on weather conditions and varied lifestyles....