Title
ELF Project B
CoPED ID
dcf3cb0e-988f-479f-a2c9-09964183d3f2
Status
Closed
Funders
Value
£8,167,152
Start Date
Feb. 1, 2008
End Date
Dec. 31, 2012
Description
The Environmentally Lightweight Fan (ELF) project is a collaborative research programme, the goal of which is to develop, prove and bring to market readiness advanced production processes for new carbon fibre fan blades for aerospace gas turbine engines. Under Project B, Rolls-Royce has used the design and analytical tools to create definition for two fan blade designs. While GKN have developed the composite manufacturing processes towards achieving the unit cost targets from the business case. This project has also included a programme of material characterisation testing managed by GKN.
| Rolls-Royce plc | LEAD_ORG |
| GKN Aerospace Services Limited | PARTICIPANT_ORG |
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Subjects by relevance
- Projects
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- Carbon fibres
- Gas turbines
- Processes
- Product development
- Gas engine
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Extracted key phrases
- ELF Project B
- Environmentally Lightweight Fan
- New carbon fibre fan blade
- Collaborative research programme
- Market readiness advanced production process
- Fan blade design
- Aerospace gas turbine engine
- Composite manufacturing process
- Project
- Material characterisation testing
- Business case
- Analytical tool