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SUMMARY:Turbine Blade Cooling Systems: Improving The Design Process - Chri
 s Bell
DTSTART:20061129T160000Z
DTEND:20061129T170000Z
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CONTACT:Julie Jupp
DESCRIPTION:Aero-engine turbine blades are cooled to extend their operatin
 g lives under arduous conditions. Designing and validating new cooling sys
 tems is a challenging process\, which consumes large amounts of time and r
 esource - the design process requires much iteration through a large web o
 f technical activities. The process complexity tends to obscure the most a
 ppropriate improvements and makes it difficult to predict the likely impac
 t of changes. Modelling the process provides a means of investigating chan
 ges in behaviour created by adjustments to the structure. This presentatio
 n will describe how the cooling system design process was captured and mod
 elled\, providing the basis for a design process improvement activity. It 
 will also show how methods are being developed for the P3-Applied Signpost
 ing Modelling system to add behaviour to structural models and to allow th
 e impact of process changes to be quantified.
LOCATION:EDC Loft Conference Room
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