Output details
15 - General Engineering
University of Leeds
Article title
A theoretical appraisal of the effectiveness of idealised ablative coatings for steel protection
Type
D - Journal article
Title of journal
Fire Safety Journal
Article number
-
Volume number
43
Issue number
8
First page of article
618
ISSN of journal
0379-7112
Year of publication
2008
URL
-
Number of additional authors
0
Additional information
The potential of a sacrificial coating to protect steel, like a heat shield on a space vehicle, is investigated using a mathematical model. The basic premise of the model is that as coating is vaporised, heat is consumed in the phase-change process that would otherwise be used to increase the temperature of a steel substrate. However, what is unknown is what parameter values are required in order to give useful protection to a substrate. The model is used to estimate important parameter ranges to delay the limit the temperature rise of the substrate over a specific time scale.
Interdisciplinary
-
Cross-referral requested
-
Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
-
Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
No
English abstract
-
