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Title: Anatomy of a Turbine Blast Mask
Author: Mark Schanze
Source: TSP, Vol 23 / Issue 2, Spring 2009
Publication year 2009
Document number: 2009012
Number of pages: 2
Abstract:
We look at upside-down drawings and
describe the top of the blade platform
when it’s really the bottom. This is what
We look at upside-down drawings and describe the top of the blade platform when it's really the bottom. This is what it's like to work with turbine blade masking. We work
primarily on the “bottom” section of the blade when it’s held upside-down in the shot peening machine. The upside-down world of turbine blade masking for shot peening
requires communication between the blade manufacturer, the shot peening provider, and a masking company like ours, Maxol Studios, LLC. The following is a description of some
of the elements and their names. We start with general turbine blade geometry and then move to the parts of a mask.
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