Publication Date:
2019-07-13
Description:
The National Aero-Space Plane (NASP) has renewed interest in hypersonic flight and hot-structures technology development for both the airframe and engine. The NASA Dryden Thermostructures Research Facility is a unique national facility that was designed to conduct thermal-mechanical tests on aircraft and aircraft components by simulating the flight thermal environment in the laboratory. The layout of the facility is presented, which includes descriptions of the high-bay test area, the instrumentation laboratories, the mechanical loading systems, and the state-of-the-art closed-loop thermal control system. The hot-structures test capability of the facility is emphasized by the Mach-3 thermal simulation conducted on the YF-12 airplane. The Liquid-Hydrogen Structural Test Facility, which is presently in the design phase, will provide the capability of thermally testing structures containing hydrogen.
Keywords:
AIRCRAFT DESIGN, TESTING AND PERFORMANCE
Type:
NASA-TM-104249
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H-1818
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NAS 1.15:104249
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Annual Society for Flight Test Engineers Symposium; Aug 03, 1992 - Aug 06, 1992; Hauppauge, NY; United States
Format:
application/pdf
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