Analysis of critical conditions on the spacecrafts Columbia (USA), and the Buran (Russia) related to defects in insulation and heat-protection coatings have been performed. It is shown that the existing methods of nondestructive testing, including ultrasound, failed to prevent the disaster of the Space Shuttle Columbia and serious incidents involving spacecraft Buran during its only flight. A new method for using the holographic subsurface radar RASCAN-5/15000 which reveals the internal defects of the coating was proposed and experiments on models of thermal insulation coatings were performed. The experimental results were displayed in the form of radar images on which defects in the heat insulation provided a good contrast.
Diagnostics of Thermal Insulation and Heat Protection Coating of Space Ships and Rockets by Holographic Subsurface Radar / Sergey Ivashov; Vladimir Razevig; Igor Vasiliev; Vladislav Shitikov; Timothy Bechtel; Lorenzo Capineri. - ELETTRONICO. - (2014), pp. 1058-1061. (Intervento presentato al convegno XV International Conference on Ground Penetrating Radar, GPR 2014 tenutosi a Brussels nel June 30 to July 4, 2014) [10.1109/ICGPR.2014.6970583].
Diagnostics of Thermal Insulation and Heat Protection Coating of Space Ships and Rockets by Holographic Subsurface Radar
CAPINERI, LORENZO
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2014
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Analysis of critical conditions on the spacecrafts Columbia (USA), and the Buran (Russia) related to defects in insulation and heat-protection coatings have been performed. It is shown that the existing methods of nondestructive testing, including ultrasound, failed to prevent the disaster of the Space Shuttle Columbia and serious incidents involving spacecraft Buran during its only flight. A new method for using the holographic subsurface radar RASCAN-5/15000 which reveals the internal defects of the coating was proposed and experiments on models of thermal insulation coatings were performed. The experimental results were displayed in the form of radar images on which defects in the heat insulation provided a good contrast.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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