Low-earth-orbit atomic oxygen erosion of polymer surfaces

Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 62-65

  Baird, James K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

^b Engineering and Mathematics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; CARBON; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; DISSOCIATION; ELECTRONIC DENSITY OF STATES; EROSION; KINETIC THEORY; ORBITS; OXYGEN; POLYMERS; SURFACE PHENOMENA; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ANISOTROPIC BONDING; ATOMIC OXYGEN; PHOTODISSOCIATION; SURFACE EROSION;

SPACECRAFT;

EID: 0031704167     PISSN: 00224650     EISSN: 15336794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/3.26998     Document Type: Article

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