A Combustion Research Facility for Testing Advanced Materials for Space Applications

Michael Bur
2003 41st Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit   unpublished
The test facility presented herein uses a groundbased rocket combustor to test the durability of new ceramic composite and metallic materials in a rocket engine thermal environment. A gaseous H 2 /0 2 rocket combustor (essentially a ground-based rocket engine) is used to generate a high temperature/high heat flux environment to which advanced ceramic and/or metallic materials are exposed . These materials can either be an integral part of the combustor (nozzle, thrust chamber etc) or can be
more » ... ted downstream of the combustor in the combustor exhaust plume. The test materials can be uncooled , water cooled or cooled with gaseous hydrogen.
doi:10.2514/6.2003-282 fatcat:6denmupxwjfltp6n62jukopghu