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Nial coatings investigated for use in reusable launch vehicles
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Ghosn, Louis J. Raj, Sai V. Barrett, Charles A. |
| Copyright Year | 2003 |
| Description | As part of its major investment in the area of advanced space transportation, NASA is developing new technologies for use in the second- and third-generation designs of reusable launch vehicles. Among the prototype rocket engines being considered for these launch vehicles are those designed to use liquid hydrogen as the fuel and liquid oxygen as the oxidizer. Advanced copper alloys, such as copper-chromium-niobium (Cu-8(at.%)Cr- 4(at.%)Nb, also referred to as GRCop-84), which was invented at the NASA Glenn Research Center, are being considered for use as liner materials in the combustion chambers and nozzle ramps of these engines. However, previous experience has shown that, in rocket engines using liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen, copper alloys are subject to a process called blanching, where the material undergoes environmental attack under the action of the combustion gases. In addition, the copper alloy liners undergo thermomechanical fatigue, which often results in an initially square cooling channel deforming into a dog-house shape. Clearly, there is an urgent need to develop new coatings to protect copper liners from environmental attack inside rocket chambers and to lower the temperature of the liners to reduce the probability of deformation and failure by thermomechanical fatigue. |
| File Size | 215870 |
| Page Count | 4 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_20050214578 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t1wd8tc43 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 2003-03-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Metals And Metallic Materials Thermodynamics Test Chambers Copper Alloys Probability Theory Linings Chromium Rocket Engines Coatings Copper Reusable Launch Vehicles Niobium Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Technical Report |
