Coatings Complexity Rises For Next-Gen Engines

turbofans with Chromalloy coating
Chromalloy’s coatings have advanced from basic aluminide protection for high-pressure turbine blades and vanes in the 1960s to the multilayered thermal barrier coatings needed on the latest turbofans.
Credit: Chromalloy
Modern aero engines are a powerful testament to humanity’s engineering prowess. Yet despite the superalloys, advanced composites and complex architectures, the margin between success and failure is sometimes perilously thin—encompassing just a few dozen microns of precisely applied coating that...

Coatings Complexity Rises For Next-Gen Engines is part of our Aviation Week & Space Technology - Inside MRO and AWIN subscriptions.

Subscribe now to read this content, plus receive full coverage of what's next in technology from the experts trusted by the commercial aircraft MRO community.

Already a subscriber to AWST or an AWIN customer? Log in with your existing email and password.