A method of forming a ceramic matrix composite component according to an exemplary embodiment of this disclosure, among other possible things includes laying up plies of ceramic reinforcement material with sacrificial plies to form a preform, infiltrating the preform with a ceramic matrix material, and machining away the sacrificial plies to reveal a surface profile of the ceramic matrix composite component. A preform for a ceramic matrix composite component is also disclosed.

A silicon carbide flow reactor fluidic module comprises a monolithic closed-porosity silicon carbide body and a tortuous fluid passage extending through the silicon carbide body, the tortuous fluid passage lying within two or more layers with the silicon carbide body, the tortuous passage having an interior surface, the interior surface having a surface roughness of less than 10 μm Ra. A method of forming the fluidic module is also disclosed.

Methods of making ceramic matrix prepregs are described. The methods include exposing a coated tow of ceramic fibers to a ceramic matrix slurry comprising a solvent and ceramic precursor. The coating is at least partially removed and the slurry infuses into the ceramic fibers to form prepreg. Steps to form ceramic matrix composites are also described, including forming the prepreg into a green body, and sintering the ceramic precursor.

A process for manufacturing a porous abradable coating includes: filling a mold with hollow glass or thermosetting polymer beads and a slurry; and sintering heat treatment to obtain a ceramic layer with pores. A maximum sintering temperature of the green body of the ceramic part is either higher than the melting temperature of the hollow glass beads so that at the end of the sintering heat treatment the hollow glass beads are melted, or higher than the decomposition temperature of the hollow thermosetting polymer beads so that at the end of the sintering heat treatment the hollow thermosetting polymer beads are decomposed.

The invention relates to a three-dimensional screen printing method for producing a green part from printing material for a powder metallurgical component, wherein the printing material contains a fraction of powder, more particularly metal powder or ceramic powder, and binder or consists of these materials, characterized in that a screen printing mask has a screen printing structure having openings for pressing the printing material through, the openings being partly undulate so that the green part at least partly has a three-dimensional undulate structure and/or undulate edges.

A method that includes winding a composite fabric around a mandrel to form a plurality of layers defining an annulus extending along a central longitudinal axis, where the composite fabric includes a plurality of elongate axial fibers extending substantially in an axial direction relative to the longitudinal axis and a plurality of elongate circumferential fibers extending substantially in a circumferential direction relative to the longitudinal axis; and introducing, into at least a portion of the plurality of layers, a plurality of radial fibers extending substantially in the radial direction relative to the longitudinal axis, where the plurality of radial fibers mechanically bind one or more adjacent layers of the plurality of layers.

The present disclosure relates to a method of fabricating a ceramic composite components. The method may include providing at least a first layer of reinforcing fiber material which may be a pre-impregnated fiber. An additively manufactured component may be provided on or near the first layer. A second layer of reinforcing fiber, which may be a pre-impregnated fiber may be formed on top the additively manufactured component. A precursor is densified to consolidates at least the first and second layer into a densified composite, wherein the additively manufactured material defines at least one cooling passage in the densified composite component.

A method for manufacturing a hollow part made of ceramic matrix or metal matrix composite, includes preparing a raw material including short fibers and a ceramic matrix precursor charge, positioning a sacrificial core in a molding cavity of injection-molding equipment, shaping the raw material by injection molding the raw material into the free space between the sacrificial core and an internal wall of the cavity to obtain a green part including the sacrificial core and the shaped raw material, extracting the green part from the equipment, densifying the raw material by flash sintering of the green part to transform the charge into a ceramic matrix, removing the sacrificial core to obtain a hollow part made of ceramic matrix or metal matrix composite, wherein the sacrificial core is coated with a flexible graphite sheet, with a graphite layer deposited by spraying or with a boron nitride paint layer before the injecting.

A hollow CMC article, a mandrel for forming the article and a method for forming the article are disclosed. The article includes a ply-wrap layer defining a cavity. The ply-wrap layer includes a first face, a second face, a root portion bridging the faces, and a plurality of CMC wrap plies. The root portion defines a terminus of the ply-wrap layer including a cross-sectional conformation consisting of a curve having a single turning point. Each of the plurality of CMC wrap plies are disposed along the first face, wrap over the root portion, and extend along the second face. The hollow article further includes a plurality of CMC lateral plies disposed along the faces.

A microstructure comprises a plurality of interconnected units wherein the units are formed of graphene tubes. The graphene tubes may be formed by photo-initiating the polymerization of a monomer in a pattern of units to form a polymer microlattice, removing unpolymerized monomer, coating the polymer microlattice with a metal, removing the polymer microlattice to leave a metal microlattice, depositing graphitic carbon on the metal microlattice, converting the graphitic carbon to graphene, and removing the metal microlattice. A ceramic may be deposited on the graphene and another graphene layer may be deposited on top of the ceramic to create a multi-layered sp.sup.2-bonded carbon tube.