Research & Development

National research and development facilities, along with their administrative partners, rely on Pratt & Whitney ultra precision measurement instruments to investigate material properties, validate performance, and identify opportunities for product and process improvement. These instruments play a critical role in advanced research applications, supporting the precise evaluation of film thickness, coefficients of thermal expansion for gage materials, gage and bearing wear, part uniformity, grain growth in gage blocks, ball sphericity, and the compressibility of emerging materials.

Pratt & Whitney measurement systems are trusted by leading research institutions, including Los Alamos National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Y-12 National Security Complex, Sandia National Laboratories, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Draper Laboratories, Consolidated Nuclear Security, Idaho National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the Center for Nuclear Waste Regulatory Analyses, Action Manufacturing and Teledyne Brown Engineering. Administrative and operating partners such as Southwest Research Institute, Bechtel Corporation, and The Babcock & Wilcox Company also depend on Pratt & Whitney instruments.

Applications

• Gauge Block Grain Growth
• Gage Calibrations 
• Ball Bearings
• Roller Bearings (Tapered, Cylindrical, Spherical, Needle)
• Optics and Lenses
• Thin Film and Meshes
• Transducers - LVDT / Glass Scales
• Gears and Splines

Processes

• Comparison
• Longitudinal Studies
• Prototype Evaluation
• Gage Wear  
• Compressibility Measurements

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