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Screening Of The Thermal Endurance Of Spacecraft Materials By Kinetic Modelling

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2011

M. Moser ,
S. Heltzel ,
C. O. A. Semprimoschnig  and
G. Garcia Martin
M. Moser
Affiliation:
Materials Physics and Chemistry Section, Materials and Processes Division, ESA/ESTEC, Postbus 299, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
S. Heltzel
Affiliation:
Materials Physics and Chemistry Section, Materials and Processes Division, ESA/ESTEC, Postbus 299, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
C. O. A. Semprimoschnig
Affiliation:
Materials Physics and Chemistry Section, Materials and Processes Division, ESA/ESTEC, Postbus 299, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
G. Garcia Martin
Affiliation:
Materials Physics and Chemistry Section, Materials and Processes Division, ESA/ESTEC, Postbus 299, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
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Abstract

Future science missions of the European Space Agency (ESA) to the inner part of the solar system will require the use of materials at an extreme radiation and temperature environment. A major concern regarding the selection of these materials is the thermal behaviour and the thermal stability. In this paper ways are shown to assess the thermal endurance of polymers by kinetic modelling. Two commonly used kinetic models, the one following the ASTM E 1641 and ASTM E 1877 standards and the other following the Model Free Kinetics (MFK) approach, are presented and compared to each other with the given example of two competing polyimide films, Kapton HN® of DuPont and Upilex S® of Ube Industries1, which were tested within ESA's critical materials technology program.

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Research Article
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 851: Symposium NN – Materials for Space Applications , 2004 , NN5.1
Copyright
Copyright © Materials Research Society 2005

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