TY - GEN
T1 - Intermetallics for thermal protection systems
AU - Marcos, J.
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Future Reusable Launch Vehicles (RLV's) will require improved Thermal Protection Systems (TPS) to achieve the ambitious goal of reducing the cost of delivering a payload to orbit by, at least, an order of magnitude. In this context, metallic materials are good candidates for their use in TPS and hot structures. Up to date, only two major type of materials have been considered and developed in Europe for such type of applications: Oxide Dispersion Strengthened (ODS) and intermetallics (?-TiAl). INASMET, during last years, has been working with the orthorhombic titanium aluminides, whose specific properties are comparable, to those of ODS and ?-TiAl materials. The EXPERT mission represents a unique opportunity to test under re-entry conditions this material.
AB - Future Reusable Launch Vehicles (RLV's) will require improved Thermal Protection Systems (TPS) to achieve the ambitious goal of reducing the cost of delivering a payload to orbit by, at least, an order of magnitude. In this context, metallic materials are good candidates for their use in TPS and hot structures. Up to date, only two major type of materials have been considered and developed in Europe for such type of applications: Oxide Dispersion Strengthened (ODS) and intermetallics (?-TiAl). INASMET, during last years, has been working with the orthorhombic titanium aluminides, whose specific properties are comparable, to those of ODS and ?-TiAl materials. The EXPERT mission represents a unique opportunity to test under re-entry conditions this material.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/66949179652
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:66949179652
SN - 9789292212230
T3 - European Space Agency, (Special Publication) ESA SP
BT - Proceedings of the 6th European Symposium on Aerothermodynamics for Space Vehicles
T2 - 6th European Symposium Aerothermodynamics for Space Vehicles
Y2 - 3 November 2008 through 6 November 2008
ER -