Steam turbine work on the international stage can have its challenges, but also its successes. Mechanical Dynamics & Analysis (MD&A) was contracted to inspect, analyze, and then straighten a Toshiba® ...

Japan Steel Works (JSW) is one of the largest manufacturers of power generation equipment parts, including rotor shafts for turbines and retaining rings that fasten the coils of generators. The ...

Mechanical Dynamics and Analysis (MD&A) was retained by a utility to perform a stub-shaft repair of a generator rotor collector-end shaft. The customer reported that the generator rotor had suffered a ...

[Canadian Press, 16 October; globeandmail.com, 16 October] Crossing the Atlantic was no problem, but the harbour at St John, New Brunswick, proved trickier for two turbine rotors destined for the ...

Joining forces with the MaREI Centre at the National University of Ireland, Galway (NUI Galway), through engineering partner Schottel Hydro (Germany), Sustainable Marine (Nova Scotia, Canada) reports ...

Although jet engines are theoretically quite simple devices, in reality they tread a fine line between working as intended and vaporizing into a cloud of lethal shrapnel. The main reason for this is ...

Download this article in PDF format. Wind turbines larger than 6 MW are becoming common, particularly for offshore installations, where consolidating several smaller wind turbines into one large ...