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By Leaps and Bounds: The Realization of Jet Propulsion through Innovative Materials and Design

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Innovations in gas turbine engine design and materials are tracked from the earliest days of functional engines to the present. Materials and design are shown to be mutually interdependent, driving engine capability to unprecedented levels of performance with each succeeding product generation.

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Key Engineering Materials (Volume 380)

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135-146

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https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.380.135

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March 2008

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Gene A. Danko

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Composite, Disruptive Innovation, Nickel Superalloy, Single Crystal, Sustaining Innovation, Thermal Barrier Coating (TBC), Titanium (Ti)

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