Additive technologies help create an aircraft engine in 10 days instead of the traditional 10 months. This was announced by the president of the National Research Center "Kurchatov Institute," Mikhail Kovalchuk.
According to him, in any engine — aircraft, helicopter, or rocket — there is a turbine with blades.
Each blade must be manufactured separately, and you are limited by technological capabilities; you cannot make a hole there for cooling. And to assemble about forty of these pieces for one helicopter engine takes 10 months. Today, in 10 days, we grow all these pieces on one plate.
He explained that today the main technological principle is cutting off unnecessary parts from something large.
But nature grows a baobab from a seed, and a living being from a cell. These additive technologies are purely nature-like technologies, because you grow, you have a natural principle at the base.
Earlier, www1.ru reported that UEC showed for the first time welding of aircraft engine parts using friction technology. This method reduces weight and increases the service life of power plants.
