Typical gas turbine components operate to the OEM recommended useful life. Sometimes upgrades are performed in the gas turbines components and the old components become obsolete. Many times, we find ...

Industrial gas turbine (IGT) manufacturers and maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) personnel are continually seeking new ways to improve the performance and longevity of critical components.

Long-time readers may remember one of the occasional Engineering Heroes series that focused on the British engineer, inventor and sometime TV presenter Tim Hunkin, known for his intricate creations, ...

How long should your furnace last? What about your dishwasher? Find out the average lifetime expectancy of your home components in this slideshow. How long should your furnace last? What about your ...

: An example of a physical vapor deposition (PVD) coating is Oerlikon Balzers’ BALINIT C. The coating is a WC/C ductile carbide carbon coating that is highly resistant to adhesive wear (scuffing) in ...

The components of life may have been under attack in the hostile environments of the universe’s first galaxies, say astronomers using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope. A science team led by graduate ...

Fatigue life prediction of notched components is a crucial area of research that addresses the challenges posed by stress concentrations at geometric discontinuities. This field integrates advanced ...