• Journal of Power System Engineering
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.19-24
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• 2011

The operational efficiency of domestic gas turbine is about 25% and it is now in the trend of the gradual growth in spite of the severe temperature, frequent starting and shutdown according to the environmental management and the energy-efficient use. Rotor bolts of gas turbine in power plants have been the cause of defects because these gas turbines have been operated for a long time under the high pressure and temperature environment experiencing the aging change and stress concentration of the bonded part. The connection parts of the bolt revealed various failure shape and these parts were elongated under very low pressure when operated in the relaxed condition. The cause is in the lack of the metal distribution in the bottle lack area and the cap screw of the bolt is broken totally in case that the nut is fastened in most cases. Gas turbine rotor bolts are connected to the rotor wheel and these bolts caused the vibration, the bulk accident of the rotor in the event that the coupling power among these bolts was relaxed. Therefore, we would like to evaluate the soundness of the main part of the gas turbine rotor bolt through the measurement of the inner condition change along with the mechanic deterioration and temperature, stress in the gas turbine rotor material.

• Journal of Power System Engineering
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.37-41
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• 2011

This paper introduces the special eddy current sensor and its characteristic for bolt hole defect evaluation in gas turbine rotor. In the past, Fluorescent penetration inspection method was used for qualitative defect evaluation in gas turbine rotor bolt hole. This method can defect the bolt hole defect but can not evaluate the defect size. Nowadays, eddy current method is used quantitative defect evaluation due to advanced sensor design technology. And eddy current method is more time and cost saving than the old method. We developed bolt shape eddy current sensor for the rotor bolt hole defect detection and evaluation. The eddy current sensor moves to the bolt hole guided by screw nut and detects the defect on the bolt hole. The bolt hole mock-up and artificial defects were made and used for the signal detection & resolution analysis of eddy current sensor. The results show that signal detection capability is enough to detect 0.2 mm depth defect. And the resolution capability is enough to differentiate 02, 0.5, 1.0 and 2.0 mm depth defect.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.137-138
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• 2012

본 연구에서는 가스터빈 압축기 로터용 제작 관통볼트의 건전성 검사가 수행됐다. 육안검사, 치수, 재질, 경도 및 피닝처리 등을 검사했으며 GE 볼트와 비교해 건전성을 판단하였다. 평가 결과 제작볼트는 기준범위 이하의 피닝강도로 처리되었다. 이에 숏피닝 강도를 향상시켜 다시 제작된 수정볼트를 재검사했고 모든 항목에서 기준범위에 포함됨을 확인했다. 궁극적으로 본 연구에서 수행된 가스터빈 압축기 로터용 관통볼트의 건전성 검사가 유효함을 확인하였다.