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Ultra-High Temperature Ceramics could enable hypersonic planes
Wednesday, October 24, 2012 7:32
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Ultra-High Temperature Ceramics are promising materials for hypersonic aircraft parts because they offer good thermomechanical properties under extreme conditions and they do it without compromising the integrity of the overall structure, Dr Tallon says.
The UHTCs can also be formed into complex shapes.
Using chemistry to modify a standard method of casting ceramics in a mould, the researchers have developed an alternative to the traditional technique of forming these ceramics as blocks at high temperatures and pressures.
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