Ablation behavior of C/SiC composites in plasma wind tunnel

L Luo, Y Wang, L Liu, L Duan, G Wang, Y Lu - Carbon, 2016 - Elsevier
The ablation behavior is crucial to the application of carbon fiber reinforced silicon carbide
(C/SiC) composites in thermal protection systems of spacecraft to enter the atmosphere or to …

Equilibrium model for the ablation response of silicone-coated PICA

JBE Meurisse, GB Chatzigeorgis, PV Diaz… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
A novel equilibrium ablation and thermal response model for NASA's Phenolic Impregnated
Carbon Ablator (PICA) is presented. For the first time, the model accounts for the effect of …

Thermal stresses of large-dimension lithium hydride ceramics during the sintering process and strength analysis based on process-based failure assessment diagram

H Yan, H Chen, M Shuai, X Zeng, B Huang - Ceramics international, 2024 - Elsevier
Lithium hydride (LiH) is an important hydrogen storage, heat storage and neutron shielding
material. When used in neutron shielding structure, its size and strength have certain …

Experimental and numerical study of oxygen catalytic recombination of SiC-coated material

Y Yang, I Kim, G Park - International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2019 - Elsevier
A combined experimental and numerical approach has been proposed to study the oxygen
catalytic recombination coefficient of SiC-coated material for two different types of surface …

Surface temperature jump beyond active oxidation of carbon/silicon carbide composites in extreme aerothermal conditions

F Panerai, B Helber, O Chazot, M Balat-Pichelin - Carbon, 2014 - Elsevier
The behavior of carbon/silicon carbide composites at very high temperatures is investigated
in an inductively-coupled plasma generator that simulates atmospheric re-entry aerothermal …

Aerothermal characterization of the Plasmatron X wind tunnel: heat flux, stagnation pressure and jet unsteadiness

L Capponi, T Oldham, M Konnik, K Stephani… - AIAA Scitech 2023 …, 2023 - arc.aiaa.org
View Video Presentation: https://doi. org/10.2514/6.2023-1338. vid Inductively coupled
plasma wind tunnels accurately replicate the harsh conditions that hypersonic vehicles …

Microstructure of pyrolyzing RTV silicone

S Oruganti, NN Mansour, M Panesi… - Polymer Degradation and …, 2023 - Elsevier
This works discusses the high temperature decomposition of Room Temperature Vulcanized
(RTV) silicone, an adhesive material used as a gap filler in ablative heatshield for planetary …

Line-of-sight gas radiation effects on near-infrared two-color ratio pyrometry measurements during plasma wind tunnel experiments

A Fagnani, B Helber, A Hubin, O Chazot - Measurement, 2024 - Elsevier
Two-color ratio pyrometry is commonly used to measure the surface temperature of
aerospace materials during plasma wind tunnel experiments. However, the effect of the …

3D infrared temperature maps measurements of ablative materials during plasma wind tunnel experiments

A Fagnani, B Helber, A Hubin… - … Science and Technology, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Accurate surface temperature and recession measurements are crucial experimental data
for plasma wind tunnel testing of ablative thermal protection materials. In this work we …

Investigation of freestream plasma flow produced by inductively coupled plasma wind tunnel

A Cipullo, B Helber, F Panerai, L Zeni… - Journal of Thermophysics …, 2014 - arc.aiaa.org
The freestream air plasma jet produced by the Plasmatron facility at the von Kármán Institute
for Fluid Dynamics is investigated. Intrusive and nonintrusive measurement techniques are …