Abstract:
The period covered by this report has been devoted to the design,
construction development and calibration of a special apparatus to simulate
the stress redistribution conditions occurring during the creep of a cooled
turbine blade. The experimental assembly consists of two creep machines,
each operating at a different temperature, so controlled that a load is
shared between them. maintaining equal creep strains (and in consequence
equal creep rates) in each specimen. The stress in each specimen and the
creep strain of the pair are automatically measured and recorded by a
specially developed unit. Some preliminary results on an aluminium alloy
are presented.
