Vladimir Putin inspecting new cobalt-alloyed components
Alexey Bulanov, Mil.Today
The Additive Technology Center (ATC) is specialized in production of components, models and aggregates of gas-turbine engines for air and land applications by layer-wise synthesis techniques. "The associated technologies are presented as well: heat treatment, laser welding and perforation, metallurgical laboratory, computer tomography, electronic microscopy, non-contact optical digitalizing laboratory and reverse engineering", said the company representatives. The ATC accomplishes the following tasks: improvement of stability in parameters of gas-turbine engine elements; obtaining of unique-topology structures; reducing of production cycle and cost of gas-turbine engine components; using of materials which traditional fabrication is either impossible or extremely expensive.
NPO Saturn (PJSC) has developed the processing chain of selective melting production – beginning from development of 3D model and ending with a functional component. The innovative designing principles are integrated as well, considering new technologies, including intellectual optimization of components topology providing required strength and taking into account directions of affecting loads and considerable reducing of weights, so called "bionical design". The center actively attends projects connected with development and obtaining of Russian-made metal-particle compositions. In 2015-2016, over a thousand of different components of gas-turbine engines made by selective laser melting techniques from cobalt and titanium alloys, as well as stainless steel, had successfully passed bench trials at the engines.
