Polymer-Oxygen Compatibility Testing: Effect of Oxygen Aging on Ignition and Combustion Properties

ASTM Special Technical Publication

Volumn , Issue 1395, 2001, Pages 73-86

  Waller, Jess M ^a   Haas, Jon P ^a   Beeson, Harold D ^a  

^a NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

AIT; Aliphatic polyamide; Chloroprene; FKM; Heat of combustion; Mechanical properties; MVQ; Neoflon; Neoprene; Nylon; Oxygen aging; Oxygen compatibility; PCTFE; PTFE; Silicone rubber; Teflon; TMA; Viton; Zytel

Indexed keywords

EID: 0345861098     PISSN: 00660558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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