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and IISc Bangalore for extending their lab facilities for carrying this work. Authors would like to thank DRDO for funding this work.

Figure 19 Boundary Conditions on the Turbine Blade

Figure 20 Location of crack on the turbine blade

Figure 21 Magnified view of crack

Figure 18Methodology for the calculation of Modal Damping Ratio

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