Photo Credit: MORPHO website logo and engine graphic (copyright CFM International ... panel demonstrator that is representative of composite fan blade chord at a specific height. This approach is used ...

One of the many challenges facing the jet engine designer is to contain a failed fan blade ... the broken blade may pass through the engine, with the potential for secondary damage well in excess of ...

general manager of the GE90/GE9X engine programs. "Carbon-fiber composite material has advanced in those 10 years, and the advancements enable GE engineers to design a thinner GE9X blade, which is ...

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has blamed the 2021 uncontained failure of Pratt & Whitey PW4077 turbofan partly on engine design and testing failures and on inadequate fan blade ...

NTSB investigators examine damage to the CFM International 56-7B turbofan engine on Southwest Airlines Flight 1380 that separated during flight last month. Investigators can't explain with ...

Boeing says a fix, which it called a "design enhancement,'' is in the works and will make the plane better able to withstand an "engine fan blade out" such as the one that occurred on Southwest ...

General Electric’s GEnx engine ... follows several fan blade containment rig tests on subscale and full-scale fan case models. These earlier tests enabled GE to optimize the design of the ...

Boeing and the FAA declined to comment on the engine-cover plan’s status Wednesday. Such changes to airplane parts can require years of design ... the impact of a fan blade’s breaking off ...

The planes also were taken out of service in South Korea and Japan, where a similar engine ... by design, not supposed to shear off, even in the event of a broken fan blade, because of the danger ...

The panel’s main purpose is to test the fan blade’s design before manufacturing so as to minimise risks. Main MORPHO’s objective is to promote industrially the deployment of smart Hybride engine fan ...