The development of lighter, stronger, composite fiber components is just part of our commitment to continuously improve the performance of our products by focusing on lowering fuel consumption, emissions and noise. The team here in Cypress is dedicated to seeing the commercial application of these technologies that will soon be adopted into advanced manufacturing production methods for gas turbine components.
Ceramic matrix composites (CMCs) offer multiple advantages for a range of high-tech industries such as aerospace and other applications with demanding thermal and mechanical requirements. CMCs deliver the high temperature capability of ceramics with the strength and reliability that is required for gas turbine engine applications, but weigh less than current alloys.
CMC components help save on fuel consumption since they are lighter weight and require less cooling over traditional nickel-based components.
This facility is developing production-ready manufacturing processes and has already produced components that are being used for engine test programs including Advance3 which demonstrates the new core design for UltraFan.