ATL Turbine Services, Scotland, has expanded its technological capabilities by investing in the Surface Two thermal spray system from Oerlikon, Switzerland.
Chromalloy, Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., a global leader in the aerospace engine aftermarket, has received Federal Aviation Administration parts manufacturer approval for its CFM56-5B/7B high pressure turbine blade.
There are two basic types of feed systems that feed materials that can be thermally sprayed (including polymers, metals, metal alloys, intermetallics, ceramics, and composites): one that feeds wires or rods and another that feeds particulates.
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Sustainable Materials have set up a fully automated system that can conduct the 3D microstructure characterization with no human intervention. The scientists can analyze 40 slices per day as the system works 24 hours without pause. Over a weekend they may collect up to 30 million data points. […]
Morpho-active surfaces that make a material active solely through its form—elastic materials that move, shift, and adapt not because of what they’re made of, but because of their structure—an example of mechanical metamaterials which are materials engineered with geometry that trigger precisely controllable transformations.
