Title
ELF
CoPED ID
0cd91519-4b43-4764-a2d2-cb6adf060c44
Status
Closed
Funders
Value
£17,652,050
Start Date
July 31, 2007
End Date
Jan. 31, 2013
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 aerospace gas turbine engine fan blades. Under Project A, Rolls-Royce has created and developed the design and analytical tools necessary to create definitions for two fan blade designs. Whilst GKN have created and developed the composite manufacturing process capability towards achieving the design requirements and unit cost targets from the business case.
| Rolls-Royce plc | LEAD_ORG |
| GKN Aerospace Services Limited | PARTICIPANT_ORG |
No people listed.
Subjects by relevance
- Product development
- Enterprises
- Manufacturing
- Projects
- Development projects
- Gas production
- Carbon fibres
- Gas turbines
- Research programmes
- Production
- Processes
- Admirers
- Gas engine
- Design (artistic creation)
Extracted key phrases
- New carbon fibre aerospace gas turbine engine fan blade
- Environmentally Lightweight Fan
- Collaborative research programme
- ELF
- Fan blade design
- Market readiness advanced production process
- Composite manufacturing process capability
- Project
- Design requirement
- Analytical tool necessary
- Unit cost target
- Goal