Understanding high recession rates of carbon ablators seen in shear tests in an arc jet

48th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting Including the New Horizons Forum and Aerospace Exposition

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Driver, David M ^a   Olson, Michael W ^a   Barnhardt, Michael D ^b   MacLean, Matthew ^c  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b ELORET CORPORATION   (United States)

^c CUBRC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A-CARBON; ABLATORS; HIGH RATE; IMPREGNATED CARBONS; MECHANICAL EROSION; OXYGEN CONCENTRATIONS; RECESSION RATE; SHAPE CHANGE; SHEAR TESTS; TEST CONFIGURATIONS; TESTS AND ANALYSIS;

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING; OXYGEN; PHENOLS;

TESTING;

EID: 78649838866     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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