• Foreign object damage can be responsible for an initiation of failure in gas turbine engines

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• Peridynamic modeling provides results for fatigue strengths of blade after impacting with a projectile

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• Such results can be used to quantify the effects of impact angle, leading edge radius, and wedge angle 

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• Credit/acknowledgement: The turbine blades geometry is the courtesy of the GrabCAD (https://grabcad.com/library) library