The Cutting Edge of High-Temperature Composites

About this technology

Overview

By working with Glenn Research Center and Marshall Space Flight Center, Hyper-Therm HTC was able to further develop and optimize its composite technology for government and commercial aerospace, plus commercial industrial applications. This technology has been folded into everything from hypersonic airframe and thermal re-entry structures, to turbine disks, laser mirror substrates, heat-engine devices, ballistic penetrators, micro-rotary cutting tools, and free-standing refractory metal components for nuclear, medical, and materials research applications. The cutting-edge composites are produced via isothermal/isobaric and forced-flow chemical vapor infiltration (CVI) processing techniques. The company's most popular high-temperature structural material systems are composed of carbon and silicon carbide fiber reinforcements in a CVI silicon carbide matrix.