Using robotics to get the inside information
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Figure 11b. Typical views of eroded inlet guide vanes -
Figure 9. Worthington steam turbine cross section showing inspection paths... -
Figure 3. Bi-directionally articulated tooling navigating blade rows (mock up) -
Figure 10. Frst stage blades (buckets) on the Worthington turbine -
Figure 2. Family of steam turbine inspection tooling -
Figure 6. Shroud band break -
Frgure 11a. Typical view of eroded inlet guide vane -
Figure 8 Minor forign object damage, possibly due to missing shroud band -
Figure 1. Typical flexible videoscope -
Figure 12. Eroded inlet guide vanes seen after casing removal -
Figure. 5b ... compared with the missing shroud band -
Figure 7a. Buckling shroud band -
Figure 5a. A blade section with shroud band intact... -
Figure 7b. Buckling shroud band -
Figure 4. Cross section of the LP-1 turbine, showing the relative reaches of...