Methods for determining the optimum design of structures protected from aerodynamic heating and application to typical boost-glide or reentry flight paths /
by Robert S. Harris, Jr., and John R. Davidson.

Description

Main Author

Harris, Robert S., Jr.

Related Names

Davidson, John R., NASA researcher.
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Langley Research Center.

Language(s)

English

Published

Washington, [D.C.] : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1962.

Summary

General equations are developed for the design of efficient structures protected from thermal environments typical of those encountered in boost-glide or atmospheric-reentry conditions. The method is applied to insulated heat-sink stressed-skin structures and to internally cooled insulated structures. Plates loaded in compression are treated in detail. Under limited conditions of plate buckling, high loading, and short flight periods, and for aluminum structures only, the weights of both configurations are nearly equal. Load parameters are found and are similar to those derived in previous investigations for the restricted case of a constant equilibrium temperature at the outside surface of the insulation.

Note

Document ID: 19980227826.
"NASA TN D-990."
"Langley Research Center, Langley Air Force Base, Va."
"March 1962."
Cover title.
Also available via Internet from NASA Technical Reports Server.

Physical Description

37 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

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