The Rostec State Corporation published footage of the production process of parts for the PD-8 aircraft engine for the SJ-100 aircraft. The video captured the 3D printing process of the oil sump, an important element of the power plant's oil system.
Rostec explained that the latest domestic heat-resistant powder alloys are used to manufacture parts using additive technologies.
During production, the products undergo mandatory optical and X-ray inspection, which confirms the quality of the part and its compliance with the specified parameters.
In total, more than a dozen elements of the PD-8 are created serially using 3D printing. At the stage of development work alone, engineers designed more than 200 synthesized parts and manufactured more than a thousand to refine the technology.
3D printing significantly speeds up the manufacture of complex parts and provides new opportunities for their mass production.
The UEC noted that designers of PD-8 and PD-14 engines will begin to be trained on Russian systems.
Earlier www1.ru reported that additive technologies have been introduced into all PD-8, PD-14 and PD-35 engines.