Titanium Response to a Nuclear Radiation Environment

Abstract

Titanium samples were tested in electron beam environments with airflow and sample heating to simulate combined aerodynamic and nuclear effects on missile shrouds. This report describes the pretest analyses, hardware development and the results of the preliminary experiments performed for system checkout. Under conditions which represented mild overtests of potential flight environments, no evidence of sustained combustion was observed in titanium samples.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1979
Accession Number
ADA090139

Entities

People

  • K. Triebes

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Boundary Layer
  • Combustion
  • Electron Beams
  • Energy
  • Ignition
  • Materials
  • Materials Laboratories
  • Measurement
  • Nuclear Radiation
  • Plenum Chambers
  • Pressure Transducers
  • Radiation
  • Surface Temperature
  • Temperature Gradients
  • Wind Tunnels
  • X Rays

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Aerospace Test and Evaluation
  • Mechanical Engineering/Mechanics of Materials.
  • Nuclear and Radiation Engineering.

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy
  • Microelectronics
  • Microelectronics - Microelectromechanical Systems