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 in order to assemble about forty such pieces for one helicopter engine, it 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.
And nature grows a baobab from a seed, and a living creature from a cell. These additive technologies are purely nature-like technologies, because you grow, you have a natural principle at the core.
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.
