Research on structural problems associated with aerodynamic heating, conducted by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) during its last decade are described. The text of a special presentation given at the NASA Symposium on Computational Aspects of Heat Transfer in Structure is presented. Some early thermostructural research activities using charts is also discussed. The prinicipal message of the paper is that although vehicle oriented research programs speed development of new technology for specific missions, too much effort may be expended on developing technology which is never used because a vehicle is never built. A healthy research program must provide freedom to explore new ideas that have no obvious applications at the time to generate the technology that makes important, unanticipated flight or vehicle opportunities possible.
Historical perspectives on thermostructural research at the NACA Langley Aeronautical Laboratory from 1948 to 1958
NASA Symp. on Computational Aspects of Heat Transfer in Struct. ; 1981 ; Hampton, VA, United States
1982-02-01
Aufsatz (Konferenz)
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Englisch
Results of recent hypersonic and unsteady flow research at Langley Aeronautical Laboratory
Engineering Index Backfile | 1950
|Results of recent hypersonic and unsteady flow research at Langley Aeronautical Laboratory
Engineering Index Backfile | 1950
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