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| | Accelerated Insertion of Materials (AIM) - General Electric (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | Development of metallic structural materials for advanced systems such as aircraft engines is a long and costly undertaking that often extends upward to 15 years. |
 | | General Electric (GE) Aircraft Engines has initiated research under the AIM program in collaboration with academia (Georgia Tech, Harvard University, Ohio State University, Princeton, and the University of Wisconsin) and industry (Boeing-Rocketdyne, Howmet, IIT Research Institute, Ladish, and Questek). |
 | | AIM is generically extensible to other materials systems, however, the GE team will use a nickel-base superalloy turbine disk to develop, validate, and demonstrate the initial AIM system. |
| www.darpa.mil /DSO/thrust/matdev/aim/aire_ge.html (720 words) |
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