NETL collaborates with strategic partners to enhance the availability and reduce costs for advanced power systems, including gas turbines like the one pictured here. As advanced fossil energy systems ...

Gas turbine engine components are prone to high- and low-cycle fatigue (HCF and LCF), cracking in critical areas of high stress. Cracks often initiate from local stress concentrations created by ...

Typical gas turbine components operate to the OEM recommended useful life. Sometimes upgrades are performed in the gas turbines components and the old components become obsolete. Many times, we find ...

What are Ceramic Matrix Composites? Composite materials typically consist of two components: a reinforcement part to provide mechanical strength and a matrix material that holds all the components ...

The Army’s Improved Turbine Engine Program (ITEP) provides Army Aviation the power to operate in Multi-Domain Operations (MDO) with longer range and endurance, providing ground forces the opportunity ...

AMES, Iowa – Engineers know that gas turbine engines for aircraft and power plants are more efficient and burn less fuel when they run at temperatures high enough to melt metal. But how to raise ...

As the U.S. Army continues to modernize, improving Army aviation is one of its top priorities. One of the key supporting efforts is the development of a new turbine engine to provide next-generation ...

Pat Foley, appointed as managing director and CEO of Lufthansa Technik Turbine Shannon last month, discusses the Ireland-based company’s plans for growth and how it is weighing up moves into parts ...