... aerospace engines rocket engines blades elastic constants finite element analysis gas turbines Turbine blades and vanes in high-performance aircraft and rocket engines are increasingly being made of single-crystal nickel superalloys. Single-crystal nickel-base superalloys were developed...

...F. Laurant; D. W. Childs Test results are presented for the rotordynamic coefficients of a hybrid bearing that is representative of bearings for liquid-rocket-engine turbopump applications. The bearing is tested in the following two degraded conditions: (a) one of five orifices plugged, and (b...