MTC Turbine Test Stand

DLR intends to enter into an innovation partnership aimed at developing MTC test stands. The MTC test stands represent a family of test stands that is meant to produce the severe environmental loads encountered in aircraft and stationary gas turbines. These environmental conditions include high Mechanical (M) Thermal (T) and Chemical (C) loads leading to a variety of failure modes of turbine components such as thermo-mechanical low cycle fatigue, fretting fatigue, ultra-high-cycle fatigue, creep, stress-corrosion cracking and hot corrosion. Innovative solutions are required that permit subjecting specimens to convey notions of 2 and more of these environmental conditions. DLR intends to award one research and development contract to one supplier.