Computer control speeds operation of equipment and processing of measurements. New heat-flux-calibration facility developed at Lewis Research Center. Used for fast-transient heat-transfer testing, durability testing, and calibration of heat-flux gauges. Calibrations performed at constant or transient heat fluxes ranging from 1 to 6 MW/m2 and at temperatures ranging from 80 K to melting temperatures of most materials. Facility developed because there is need to build and calibrate very-small heat-flux gauges for Space Shuttle main engine (SSME).Includes lamp head attached to side of service module, an argon-gas-recirculation module, reflector, heat exchanger, and high-speed positioning system. This type of automated heat-flux calibration facility installed in industrial plants for onsite calibration of heat-flux gauges measuring fluxes of heat in advanced gas-turbine and rocket engines.
Automated Heat-Flux-Calibration Facility
NASA Tech Briefs ; 13 , 6
1989-06-01
Miscellaneous
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English
NTRS | 1993
NTRS | 1990
|High Heat Flux Facility Data Acquisition System
AIAA | 1995
|Heat Flux Calibration - Process Towards National Standards
British Library Conference Proceedings | 1995
|The High Heat Flux Facility at Stennis Space Center
Online Contents | 1996