DAVIDSON, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Curtiss-Wright Corporation (NYSE: CW) today announced the successful verification of the Curtiss-Wright Laser Peening process on the airframe components of the ...

Fighter Jet laser weapons are on the fast track, expected to bring new air attack options to “burn holes” through enemy targets at the speed of light. Not only are laser weapons fast, precise and low ...

Laser-peened fan blades are enabling aircraft to fly for longer periods between engine maintenance. Oliver Graydon reports on the commercialization of the technique. From Opto & Laser Europe May 2004.

The fifth-generation F-35B fighter is a multi-role machine designed to operate from short-field austere bases and a range of aircraft carriers thanks to its short take-off and vertical landing ...

With newly gained performance and efficiency, laser peening could change how metal structures are designed and manufactured, says Dave Francis, executive vice president, Metal Improvement Co., Paramus ...

Rolls-Royce has extended its use of laser peening technology in the manufacture of its jet engines, with the addition of a new production cell at its site in Singapore. Curtiss-Wright Corporation, the ...

Curtiss-Wright company Metal Improvement has commercialised a laser peening technology originally developed by the USA's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). The Lasershot process is being ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The new laser process, by contrast, will strengthen the design without adding metal or weight. This is of great significance, because among other things, the F-35 is ...

EPRI (Electric Power Research Institute) reports that 7FA gas turbines have a rotor life of about 144,000 hours, or 5,000 starts. The primary life-limiting factor is high cycle fatigue cracks ...

For the first time, a portable laser shock peening system has been developed for and demonstrated in a shipyard environment and on board a U.S. Navy warship to combat aluminum cracking. On June 24, ...

Fighter Jet laser weapons are on the fast track, expected to bring new air attack options to “burn holes” through enemy targets at the speed of light. Not only are laser weapons fast, precise and low ...

Most people don't realize it, but the airplane they may fly on may be stronger and safer, thanks to a pair of former Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers who developed and commercialized ...