MAI took part in the HeliRussia-2023 business program
The XVI International Helicopter Industry Exhibition HeliRussia-2023 started at the Crocus Expo. This is an authoritative meeting place for aviation industry professionals, which introduces the most advanced domestic achievements in helicopter construction, production of unmanned aerial vehicles and development of digital solutions for piloting and navigation.
On May 18, the representatives of Moscow Aviation Institute took part in several events of the business program of the exhibition.
At the “Additive technologies in the aviation industry” conference a postgraduate student of the department 205 “Technology for the production of aircraft engines” Maria Eremkina delivered her presentation. She shared the results of a study devoted to ways to increase the service life of parts for aviation and space-rocket technology, obtained by selective laser alloying.
– Additive technologies are being actively introduced into the aviation and rocket and space industries nowadays. However, there are a number of features that arise during the production of the parts – these are high roughness and sticking to the surface of individual powder particles that cannot be removed by mechanical means, such as washing and blowing, – Maria Eremkina noted.
To overcome these problems, careful post-processing of the products is necessary. According to the results of studies conducted by MAI, two types of coatings that can increase the wear resistance and performance characteristics of finished parts are proposed.
– The first method involves chemical deposition without exposure to electric current. The second, more reliable one, is the process of microarc oxidation, that is, the electrochemical modification of the surface layer of a material in an electrolyte plasma, resulting in the formation of a rather thick ceramic-like coating, – the MAI postgraduate student specified.
MAI also acted as a co-organizer of the “Aviation Industry Achievements” round table. During the event, the director of MAI Marketing Center, Svetlana Isaeva, spoke about current trends in the aircraft market, the head of the research department 310 “Electric power, electromechanical and biotechnical systems” Nikolai Ivanov delivered the report on electric power plants, and the researcher of the department 101 “Design and certification of aviation equipment” Andrey Kolpakov presented the “Prefabricated cellular aggregates of load-bearing surfaces of a three-layer structure” project.
Moscow Aviation Institute stand showcased the Defectoscope, AgroScout and Agrodron drones, a digital production quality control section, a model of a vibration stand for testing helicopter fuel tanks for vibration resistance, a VR simulator for training aviation engineering service and AR-assistant for interactive training this year.
