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Ultra high temperature ceramics for aerospace applications.
Current efforts have focused on heavy early transition metal borides such as hafnium diboride and.
Ultra high temperature ceramics for aerospace applications the open aerospace engineering journal 2010 3.
Temperatures above 1600 c and possibly exceeding 2200 c will be described as an ultra high temperature region to differentiate unique thermo mechanical and thermo chemical demands of aerospace applications.
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Ultra high temperature ceramics are a class of refractory ceramics that offer excellent stability at temperatures exceeding 2000 c being investigated as possible thermal protection system materials coatings for materials subjected to high temperatures and bulk materials for heating elements.
Broadly speaking uhtcs are borides carbides nitrides and oxides of early transition metals.
The ultra high temperature ceramics uhtcs are of great interest for different engineering sectors and notably the aerospace industry.