{"id":192599,"date":"2009-03-15T05:07:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-15T10:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/03\/15\/ceramic-composites-starting-to-find-way-into-engines\/"},"modified":"2009-03-15T05:07:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-15T10:07:00","slug":"ceramic-composites-starting-to-find-way-into-engines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/03\/15\/ceramic-composites-starting-to-find-way-into-engines\/","title":{"rendered":"Ceramic Composites Starting to Find Way Into Engines"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; width: 410px; float: right;\">\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 405px;\" src=\"http:\/\/img136.imageshack.us\/img136\/6906\/aw030920091022l8412859.jpg\" bordercolor=\"white\" 390=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Production verification ceramic matrix composite vane<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Well, we now have another reason to support a 2nd engine for the JSF, it appears that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/publication\/awst\/loggedin\/AvnowStoryDisplay.do?fromChannel=awst&amp;pubKey=awst&amp;channel=awst&amp;issueDate=2009-03-09&amp;story=xml\/awst_xml\/2009\/03\/09\/AW_03_09_2009_p36-120644.xml\">GE\/Rolls-Royce F-136 alternate engine will be the first production engine to use ceramic composites<\/a>. (<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">paid subscription required<\/span>)<\/p>\n<p>Right now, they are looking at using it on stationary parts of the engine, &#8220;vanes, shrouds, combustor liners,&#8221; though there is investigations of using it on rotating parts too.<\/p>\n<p>There is both a significant weight savings (Nickel is heavy), and a reduction and\/or elimination of the need for cooling air.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Production verification ceramic matrix composite vane Well, we now have another reason to support a 2nd engine for the JSF, it appears that the GE\/Rolls-Royce F-136 alternate engine will be the first production engine to use ceramic composites. (paid subscription required) Right now, they are looking at using it on stationary parts of the engine, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1128,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-propulsion","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192599"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}