Ablative thermal protection systems have experienced renewed interest in the past decade
owing to the retirement of NASA's Space Shuttle fleet and the US presidential mandate to …

Combustion is arguably as old as homo sapiens ability to observe and use fire. Despite the
long tradition of using carbon combustion for energy production, this reaction is still not fully …

Material properties and oxidation behavior of low-density felts used as substrates for
conformal carbon/phenolic ablators were compared with those of a rigid carbon fiber …

A CRITICAL problem in the design of thermal protection systems (TPSs) for planetary probes
and space vehicles is the choice of a heat-shield material and its associated material …

The modelling of ablation of carbon/carbon (C/C) composites utilized as rocket engine hot
parts is addressed under the angle of the competition between bulk transport of reactants …

Abstract The Porous Microstructure Analysis (PuMA) software has been developed in order
to compute effective material properties and perform material response simulations on …

Oxidation is one of the main decomposition mechanisms of fibrous carbon/phenolic ablators
employed in thermal protection systems for planetary entry capsules. The oxidation process …

The ablation characteristics of plain-woven SiC/SiC composites were investigated using an
oxy-acetylene flame to reveal the failure process. The results showed that the linear ablation …

Because of their unique ablative properties, many carbon-based heterogeneous materials
are used as components for thermal protection of systems used at extreme temperatures …

Abstract Carbon/carbon (C/C) composites suffer from the thermochemical ablation and
mechanical erosion in the thermal protection system. A mathematical model describing the …