Today’s CMC materials, robust and resistant to high temperatures, provide their own set of challenges when determining their ...

In the last decade, the company has spent more than $1.5B on R&D of ceramic matrix composites for jet engine components.

Firefly Aerospace has secured a contract to develop ceramic matrix composites for engines, boosting efficiency and reducing costs for rocket production.

Firefly will utilize its expertise in composite manufacturing and liquid rocket engines to rapidly design, build, and test a composite-based nozzle extension to validate the material.

Firefly Aerospace will develop a ceramic matrix composite rocket nozzle extension for liquid rocket engines.

Gadolinium (Gd), a rare earth element with the largest neutron absorption cross-section among natural elements, performs excellently as a neutron absorber. Gd-containing radiation composite shielding ...

Surface temperature measurements of ceramic matrix composite (CMC) based engine components within the hot section of a gas turbine engines are needed to verify engine designs and cooling requirements.

As increasingly more SiC-SiC ceramic matrix composites (CMCs) are being used in the hot sections of gas-turbine engines, there is a greater need for in situ strain measurement in these harsh ...

GE Aviation opens factories to mass-produce materials for ceramic matrix composites In a ceremony with Alabama public officials, GE Aviation broke ground on two adjacent factories to mass-produce ...

Therefore, continuous fiber ceramic matrix composites are used in aerospace and defense, automotive, and energy and power end-use industries.