Researchers using the Frontier supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have identified aerothermal flaws in jet engine turbine blades that conventional simulation methods could not detect. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists have used one of the world's most powerful supercomputers to find out how microscopic damage to turbine blades ...

The bogus jet-engine parts supplied by a UK company under investigation for fraudulent documentation included turbine blades, a crucial component of an aircraft’s propulsion system. “Maintenance ...

According to Mikhail Kovalchuk, Russia is one of five countries in the world to have full-cycle jet engine production MOSCOW, February 6. /TASS/. Currently, Russian manufacturers "grow" turbine blades ...

You certainly know that birds are enemies of jet engine turbine blades. But these jet engines have another nasty foe: sand. Even if the turbine blades are protected with thin layers of thermal barrier ...

AMES, Iowa – Engineers know that gas turbine engines for aircraft and power plants are more efficient and burn less fuel when they run at temperatures high enough to melt metal. But how to raise ...

UW mechanical engineering Ph.D. candidate Stephan Brinckmann, from Clinton, N.J., and first-year graduate student Jackson Rambough, of Kingston, Wash., display a computer model and prototype of the ...

Rolls-Royce is still awaiting certification for its redesigned Trent 1000 TEN high-pressure turbine blade for the Boeing 787 engine, a delay it attributes to the US FAA’s having higher priorities. The ...

The FAA has granted parts manufacturer approval (PMA) to Chromalloy’s CFM56 high-pressure turbine stage 1 blade—the latest step in the engine parts specialist’s move to help satisfy demand for ...

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md.-- A team of U.S. Army and academic researchers developed a novel design to automatically adjust aircraft engine rotor blade positions while already in-flight, a tactic ...

Turbojet engines are an incredible piece of 20th century engineering that except for some edge cases, have mostly been replaced by Turbofans. Still, even the most basic early designs were ...