Physical challenges and limitations confronting the use of UHTCs on hypersonic vehicles

17th AIAA International Space Planes and Hypersonic Systems and Technologies Conference 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Glass, David E ^a  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE OXIDATIONS; ENGINEERING CHALLENGES; FLIGHT ENVIRONMENT; HIGH-TEMPERATURE CAPABILITY; MONOLITHIC CERAMICS; TEMPERATURE CAPABILITY; TEMPERATURE RANGE; ULTRA-HIGH-TEMPERATURE CERAMICS;

CERAMIC MATERIALS; CERAMIC MATRIX COMPOSITES; HYPERSONIC AERODYNAMICS; OXIDATION; SILICA; SILICON;

HYPERSONIC VEHICLES;

EID: 84881267714     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2011-2304     Document Type: Conference Paper

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