>>1081715

Engine turbines are 'grown' in a procedural process that yields a very specific crystalline matrix. If that matrix is compromised, then the turbine will spontaneously deconstruct at nominal spindle speeds.

It should be rare, though it could be induced with a targeted corrosion process or induced metal fatigue. Heating a portion of the turbine outside of its glass transition temperature or certain critical temps for the alloy would, also, destroy the age hardening process and compromise the turbine.

>>1081934

Heart attack. Rapid decompression resulting in released gasses in the blood and an embolism.

Well… If she really went out the window.

Those windows are fairly small. Likely her left arm and shoulder went out, if anything. Skeptical that the suction would be enough on its own. Maybe if she were a child.

>>1081971

Correct, and non-destructive inspection of metal matricies is a relatively new capability. Further, there would be little reason to inspect the intake fan for more than the obvious unless it hit a period of hours or had an incident that would have caused it to be suspect. Generally, though, the philosophy is that any sign of damage to a 'spinny thing' means remove and replace with new from manufacturer.

But if I were to heat up that turbofan with a laser - just a single blade - then it may not be obvious anything was done.

>>1082079

Depends on exactly what part of the jet engine. Waspalloy, for example, is often used in the combustion and compression stages, where heat rises. Waspalloy has very stable coefficients of expansion and is quite strong at operating temperatures (some alloys are actually weaker while 'cold').

That said, the exact production methods can also vary. Casting methods for turbines exist where differing alloys are actually cast procedurally on top of each other in layers before a final fusion process with pressure and temperature controls to ensure the matrix builds as desired with grain boundaries in the desired direction.

Age hardened alloys are a sort of dark magic of metallurgy. Heat a metal to x degrees for x time, cool at y rate to hold at temperature u for z time. Then back up… Down… Violate causality and have it be two temperatures at once… And then you have a bronze superalloy that can laugh off a nuke in one direction but marking on it with a pencil will cause it to unravel violently in minutes.