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Inside GE's Boot Camp For Jet Engines

November 04, 2014
There are few people who know more about bad days for flying than Brian De Bruin and his team at GE’s jet engine testing facility in Peebles, Ohio. The team’s job is to make sure that GE engines keep working when they run into bad thunderstorms or a stray seagull. They expose the machines to hail and monsoon rain, hit them with bird carcasses, and even set off small explosions inside to simulate blade failure. “Some of these tests are relatively benign, but others are quite damaging,” De Bruin says. “You’ve got to prove that your engines are good.”
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These Materials Scientists Are Teaching Robots Awesome New Tricks

November 02, 2014
With its roller doors and a squat build, GE’s composites manufacturing lab in Munich looks from the outside like many other garages in this Bavarian city where mechanics might work on Audis and BMWs. But walk through those doors and you’ll be greeted by a large robotic arm weaving composite parts from a long strand of a light and strong carbon fibers.
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A Short Flight for a Jet, A Giant Leap for a Jet Engine

October 10, 2014

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Honey, I Shrunk the World: How Materials Scientists Made the Globe Smaller

September 15, 2014
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Aviation Proves Newest Territory for 3D Printing

July 16, 2014
3D printing has for years been applied to small scale manufacturing processes, tackling anything from creating small-scale industrial parts to assembling entire automobile frames.  Most recently, 3D printing has been introduced into the personal consumer market, with affordable printers that allow everyday people to manufacture and replicate mechanical designs of their own.
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GE’s Jet Engine Unit Brings Home $36 Billion in New Business at Farnborough Airshow

July 16, 2014

The Middle East is quickly becoming a new global aviation hub with big plans for the future. Nowhere are those plans better visible than at giant airshows like the one in Farnborough, UK, which finished this week. Emirates and Qatar Airlines, for example, finalized multi-billion orders for Boeing’s next-generation 777X long-haul planes, building on a momentum from last year’s Dubai airshow.

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World's First Plant to Print Jet Engine Nozzles in Mass Production

July 15, 2014
GE is taking mass production to a lofty new level. The company is pulling 3D printing out of the lab and installing it at the heart of the world’s first factory for printing jet engine fuel nozzles in Auburn, Ala.
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Fit to Print: New Plant Will Assemble World’s First Passenger Jet Engine With 3D Printed Fuel Nozzles, Next-Gen Materials

June 23, 2014
GE Aviation will open a new assembly plant in Indiana to build the world’s first passenger jet engine with 3D printed fuel nozzles and next-generation materials, including heat-resistant ceramic matrix composites (CMCs) and breakthrough carbon fiber fan blades woven in all three dimensions at once.
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Scientists Use "Big Bang" Supercomputer to Build Better Jet Engine

June 08, 2014
At California’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the world’s most powerful computers are working on some of our most fundamental questions about the universe. The Sierra supercomputer, for example, is delving into the Big Bang and trying to figure out why elementary particles have mass.
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Smash It, Crush It, Blast It: Spring Break It, GE Style

April 22, 2014

When GE engineers wanted to make their jet engines more efficient, they developed a special ceramic material that can operate at temperatures where most metal alloys grow soft. But the idea of putting ceramics inside jet engines was so revolutionary that they took the material to a shooting range and blasted it with steel balls flying at 150 mph to prove that it was viable (see image below).image

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