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Annals of the Aca<strong>de</strong>my of <strong>Romania</strong>n ScientistsSeries on Engineering SciencesISSN 2066-8570 <strong>Volume</strong> 3, Number 1/<strong>2011</strong> 47ANALYTICAL EVALUATION OF CRACK PROPAGATIONFOR BULB HYDRAULIC TURBINES SHAFTSMircea O. POPOVICU 1 , Ilare BORDEASU 2 , Liviu MARSAVINA 3Rezumat. Centralele hidroelectrice utilizează energia regenerabilă a cursurilor <strong>de</strong> apă.Turbinele hidraulice Bulb funcţionând la că<strong>de</strong>ri reduse reprezintă surse excelente <strong>de</strong>energii alternative. Arborii turbinelor Bulb sunt piese masive, <strong>de</strong> formă cilindrică realizate<strong>din</strong> oţel slab aliat. Lucrarea analizează fisurile <strong>de</strong> oboseală ce au apărut în zona <strong>de</strong>racordare <strong>din</strong>tre arbore şi flanşa turbinei. Starea <strong>de</strong> tensiune <strong>din</strong> această zonă a fostanalizată cu programele ANSIS şi AFGROW. Ca rezultat final, a fost stabilit numărulorelor <strong>de</strong> funcţionare până la străpungerea completă a peretelui arborelui.Abstract. The Hydroelectric Power Plants uses the regenerating energy of rivers. Thehydraulic Bulb turbines running with low heads are excellent alternative energy sources.The shafts of these units present themselves as massive pieces, with cylindrical shape,manufactured from low-alloyed steels. The paper analyses the fatigue cracks occurring atsome turbines in the neighbourhood of the connection zone between the shaft and theturbine runner flange. To obtain the tension state in this zone ANSIS and AFGROWcomputing programs were used. The number of running hours until the piercing of theshaft wall is established as a useful result.Keywords: bulb turbines, horizontal shafts, fatigue cracks, crack propagation1. IntroductionThe horizontal shafts are more exposed to fatigue cracks than the vertical ones asa result of the variable stresses occurring at each turn. From constructive reasons,the great majority of the Power Stations have the hydro aggregates verticallyoriented and the fatigue fracture is an unusual event. The exception are the stationendowed with Bulb turbines, Pelton turbines with a reduced number of injectionnozzles as well as the aggregates with small and very small output. For the Peltonturbine case, the shaft is permanently wetted because of jets in the turbine chamber.In this situation, at variable stresses, the Wöhler curve does not present an asymptoticten<strong>de</strong>ncy limit, so after a certain number of running hours, the fatigue fractureoccurs. This phenomenon is known as corrosive fatigue. Many years ago, throughoral reports, I have heard about an extremely interesting breakdown of the horizontal1 Prof., PhD, Eng., Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Chair Hydraulic Machinery, Timișoara“Politehnica” University, Timișoara, <strong>Romania</strong>, full member of the <strong>Romania</strong>n Aca<strong>de</strong>my - (e-mail:mpopoviciu @gmail.ro).2 Prof., PhD, Eng., Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Chair Hydraulic Machinery, Timișoara“Politehnica” University, Timișoara, <strong>Romania</strong>.3 Prof., PhD, Eng., Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Chair Strength of Materials, Timișoara“Politehnica” University, Timișoara, <strong>Romania</strong>.Copyright © Editura Aca<strong>de</strong>miei <strong>Oamenilor</strong> <strong>de</strong> Știință <strong>din</strong> România, <strong>2011</strong>Watermark Protected