Causes of damages to fan blades of the generator of a steam turbine

It is shown that the fracture of blades of the fan of a TGV-200 generator is induced by corrosion fatigue intensified by residual hydrogen accumulated in steel in the process of electroplating of a cadmium coating on the surface of blades. Karpenko Physicomechanical Institute, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, L'viv. Translated from Fizyko-Khimichna Mekhanika Materialiv, Vol. 33, No. 3, pp. 109–112, May–June, 1997.