The National Aero-Space Plane (NASP) has renewed interest in hypersonic flight and hot-structures technology development for both the airframe and engine. The NASA Dryden Thermostructures Research Facility is a unique national facility that was designed to conduct thermal-mechanical tests on aircraft and aircraft components by simulating the flight thermal environment in the laboratory. The layout of the facility is presented, which includes descriptions of the high-bay test area, the instrumentation laboratories, the mechanical loading systems, and the state-of-the-art closed-loop thermal control system. The hot-structures test capability of the facility is emphasized by the Mach-3 thermal simulation conducted on the YF-12 airplane. The Liquid-Hydrogen Structural Test Facility, which is presently in the design phase, will provide the capability of thermally testing structures containing hydrogen.


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    Title :

    Thermal-structural test facilities at NASA Dryden


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    Annual Society for Flight Test Engineers Symposium ; 1992 ; Hauppauge, NY, United States


    Publication date :

    1992-08-01


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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