Gas turbine diagnostics has a history almost as long as gas turbine development itself. Early engine fault diagnosis was carried out based on manufacturer information supplied in a technical manual combined with maintenance experience. In the late 1960s, when L. A. Urban introduced gas path analysis, gas turbine diagnostics made a big breakthrough. Since then different methods have been developed and used in both aerospace and industrial applications. To date, a substantial number of papers have been published in this area. This paper intends to give a comprehensive review of performance-analysis-based methods available thus far for gas turbine fault diagnosis in the open literature.
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