MOSCOW. Feb 15 (Interfax-AVN) - The All-Russian Institute of Aviation Materials (VIAM) has designed the UVNK-9A vacuum oriented-crystallization plant intended for casting high-pressure blades of promising jet engines, VIAM Director General Yevgeny Kablov said on Friday.
The products made by the new plant are distinguished by high quality and structural perfection of the working medium's monocrystals, Kablov told Interfax-Military News Agency. The UVNK- 9A outperforms all analogues as far as the nature of working processes and specifications are concerned.
The UVNK-9A is operated by a computer program that effects mechanical and thermal processes in the automatic mode. The plant is capable of moulding all types of high-pressure blades for current and future gas-turbine engines.
The quality level of blades produced by the UVNK-9A makes 85 to 90 percent, which is far higher than the level of similar foreign and domestic plants. The service life of the blades made by that system exceeds 30,000 hours.
VIAM is planning to produce the UVNK-9A plants for Russia's major aircraft engine makers, including Rybinskiye Motory in the Yaroslavl region, the Salyut state-owned research and production center in Moscow, the Kazan engine-building production association in the Tatarstan autonomous republic and Permskiye Motory in the city of Perm.
VIAM is a unique center of materials science that has no analogues in the world as far as the range and complexity of its goals are concerned. The institute has designed 96 percent of materials used in aircraft.