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When producing parts in metal by 3D printing, also known as additive manufacturing (AM), defects can occur. In common with other manufacturing processes, these defects may consist of cracks, internal pores or impurities, and these defects could lead to premature or unexpected failure of a part. To combat this, inspection and quality assurance processes ar...

Project ASCENT (Aerospace Composite Engineering for New Technologies), is a partnership between Rolls-Royce plc, Oxford University, Bristol University and Imperial College London. This project aims to advance state-of-the-art in the use of organic composites in gas turbine fan systems and provides significant understanding to mature Rolls-Royce's UltraFan...

System Optimisation for Noise using Advanced Technology Acoustics (SONATA) will provide Whole-Engine Noise design methods for a next generation of more efficient engine architectures from Rolls-Royce for both Narrow and Widebody applications. SONATA provides Cross-Cutting, enabling technologies and capability development for whole aircraft design using Ac...

Imagine a design system where a designer makes a small change to a component, and instantly the effect of this change propagates through the entire design system, initiating automated analyses to determine the effect of the change on the whole lifecycle attributes of the full product. Project Nene aims to reduce the length of a design iteration for a whol...

Project TUNE supports developing an UltraFan(r) engine integrated technology demonstrator for future single aisle aircraft. The project will understand how best to scale UltraFan(r) differentiating technology to single aisle application to maximise its value and develop novel concepts for how the UltraFan(r) can be manufactured at high rate and achieve hi...

Contrails are understood to contribute a significant proportion of aviation's overall climate warming impact. All flights utilising fossil fuel emit CO2 proportionally with fuel burn and therefore contribute CO2-related warming evenly with distance flown. Conversely, warming from contrails is attributable to a minority of flights depending on their flight...

UltraFan is the Rolls-Royce proposal for the next generation of ultra-efficient civil aircraft engines, significantly reducing fuel burn in comparison with conventional propulsion technology, hence, proportionally minimising the environmental impact from the atmospheric release of the combustion products. In order to support the development of the market ...

Achieving the UK Aerospace NetZero 2050 target and maintaining the UK's global competitiveness will require new ultra-efficient turbofans that improve efficiency and reduce the climate impact of aviation. Ultra-efficient turbofans will reduce considerably in-flight aircraft energy consumption and will enable energy savings on zero-carbon platforms, thus r...

To meet global EU objectives related to aeronautical industry competitiveness and climate-neutrality, highly advanced design technologies are needed to allow fast and reliable evaluations of innovative configurations. ROSAS aims at exploiting Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Machine Learning (ML), coupled with recent advances in Computational Fluid Dynamics (...

In order to demonstrate novel hot end technologies that deliver a step change in cooling effectiveness to enable reduced fuel burn, demonstration of the technology in an environment representative of in-service is required. HT3 Phase 3 will subject these technologies to high cyclic engine testing in a non-benign environment to support their introduction t...

REPLENISH will develop a portfolio of maintenance, repair, inspection, sensing, and digital twinning techniques predominately to support Rolls-Royce's civil fleet through improved time on-wing and reduced in-shop costs. Rolls-Royce will lead the programme supported by the following best-in-class UK organisations: Clifton Photonics, BJR Systems, AddQual, i...

The main goal of DEMOQUAS is to develop an efficient framework of uncertainty quantification (UQ) and provide holistic aircraft/ engine design tools (i.e. multi-fidelity, multi-disciplinary, digital threads/twins and Model Based System Engineering {MBSE} or Model Based Definition {MBD} modalities) with the capability to become ‘UQ-enabled’. In this way, i...