Cocoa Beach: Cocoa Beach Conference Proceedings

Welcome to the Cocoa Beach Information System. This library contains electronic proceedings from the Annual Conference on Ceramics, Metal and Carbon Composites Materials and Structures - commonly referred to as the Cocoa Beach Conference. In addition, this library contains electronic documents from Refractory Composites Working Group which directly preceded today’s Cocoa Beach Conference.

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Inside you will learn about the development of high temperature materials (>2500 deg-F) during the height of the cold war and the space race.

Samples of information include:

Past, Present And Future Systems

	Silicon Carbide/Carbon Composite Nozzle Flaps for the F414 Engine.
	Hypersonic Applications such as X-30, X-33, X-37, X-43 HyTech, and Sharp.
	Legacy papers on Asset, Dynasoar and Shuttle

Past, Present and Future Applications

Titanium Monoboride/Titanium armor.

Advanced Carbon Thermal Management Materials.

Rocket Motor Components, Nose Caps, Randomes and Gas Turbine Components.
Processing Methods

Polymer Infiltration and Pyrolysis.

Plasma Spraying

CVD (Chemical Vapor Deposition)

Materials

Boron Fiber		Carbon-Carbon
C/SiC		SiC/SiC
Aluminum-Lithium		Metal Matrix Composites
HfC/HfB₂ Coatings		Rhenium
DRA (Discontinuously Reinforced Aluminum)
TMCs (Titanium Matrix Composite)

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