Assessment of the Sensitivity of Natural
Frequency of Vibration with Respect to Variation
in Geometric Parameters in a Turbine Blade
by
Daniel A. Snyder
A Project Submitted to the Graduate
Faculty of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
in Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the degree of
MASTER OF ENGINEERING in MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
Approved:
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Ernesto Gutierrez-Miravete, Thesis Adviser
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Hartford, CT
December, 2010
(For Graduation August 2011)
© Copyright 2010
by
Daniel A. Snyder
All Rights Reserved
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CONTENTS
LIST OF TABLES ............................................................................................................ iv
LIST OF FIGURES ........................................................................................................... v
ACKNOWLEDGMENT .................................................................................................. vi
ABSTRACT .................................................................................................................... vii
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LIST OF TABLES
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LIST OF FIGURES
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ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Thanks to Jeff Beattie for help with ANSYS and for giving me the concept for this
project. Thanks to Grant Reinman for consultation on statistical methods such as partial
least squares regression and principal component analysis. Thanks to Pratt & Whitney
for providing me with an environment
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ABSTRACT
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