Ablation of the carbon/carbon composite nozzle-throats in a small solid rocket motor

Carbon

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1208-1215

  Li, Ke Zhi ^a   Shen, Xue Tao ^a   Li, He Jun ^a   Zhang, Shou Yang ^a   Feng, Tao ^a   Zhang, Lei Lei ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN POLYTECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ABLATION MECHANISMS; ABLATION PERFORMANCE; ABLATION RATES; ABLATION SURFACES; C/C COMPOSITES; CARBON/CARBON; COMBUSTION GAS; ENERGY MINIMA; FIBER BUNDLES; FIBER DENSITY; FIRE TESTING; HETEROGENEOUS REACTIONS; HIGH PRESSURE; MATRIX; SHAPED FIBERS; SOLID ROCKET MOTORS;

CARBON CARBON COMPOSITES; COMBUSTION; FIBERS; FIREPROOFING; FLAMMABILITY TESTING; ROCKET ENGINES; ROCKET NOZZLES; ROCKETS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE REACTIONS;

ABLATION;

EID: 78751574253     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2010.11.037     Document Type: Article

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