aeroengine
GKN Aerospace & Pratt & Whitney to Use Additive for the F135 Engine
GKN Aerospace and RTX unit Pratt & Whitney will collaborate on additive manufacturing for the F135 engine. This is an important engine. The turbofan powers the F-35 Lightning II, but…
Aerospace Giant IHI Bets on Freemelt E-Beam 3D Printing for Next-Gen Turbine Alloys
IHI Europe has purchased a Freemelt electron-beam powder-bed fusion (E-PBF) system. Previously, parent IHI bought two Freemelt systems, bringing the total to three. IHI is a Japanese engineering conglomerate. The…
China’s Belt and 3D Printed Road: What China Needs to Make a Jet Engine
Of all the things in the world, there are probably only three things that China can not make: wide-body commercial aircraft, world class aero engines, and latest generation EUV chip…
Students Learn Digital Manufacturing Through Design and 3D Printing of Turbine Blades
In a paper entitled “Application of Additive Manufacturing in Design & Manufacturing Engineering Education,” a pair of researchers from University College Dublin detail how they implemented a program on digital manufacturing…
