High Temperature Testing of C/C (Carbon/Carbon) Composites

Abstract

A high temperature vacuum furnace for across-ply testing of carbon/ carbon composites has been installed. This furnace has a double-walled water- jacketed vacuum chamber and is equipped with a 30 kVA variable output transformer, semi-automatic vacuum system, a digital temperature controller programmer, a two-color optical pyrometer, various thermocouples, and a digital data acquisition system. This furnace has been installed on an existing Model 1123 Instron and heating to 2200 C has been accomplished. Graphite toolings have been prepared and across-ply tensile testing to 1700 C have been conducted. Keywords: Carbon/carbon composites, High temperature, Graphite furnace, Across ply strength.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 12, 1987
Accession Number
ADA193012

Entities

People

  • Parvis Dadras

Organizations

  • Wright State University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Pressure
  • Composite Materials
  • Control Panels
  • Data Acquisition
  • Furnaces
  • Graphitic Materials
  • Heating
  • Heating Elements
  • High Resolution
  • High Temperature
  • Optical Pyrometers
  • Stainless Steel
  • Tensile Testing
  • Vacuum
  • Vacuum Furnaces
  • Valves
  • Water

Fields of Study

  • Materials science

Readers

  • Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Data Science/Digital Signal Processing.
  • Reinforced Composite Materials
  • Thermal Physics or Thermal Science.