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High Temperature Burner Rig
Lab Description and Capabilities
- High temperature, high velocity (up to Mach 2) burner rig testing with capability for sand ingestion
- Uniaxial tension-compression: fast fracture, fatigue, creep, etc.
- Health monitoring via acoustic emission (AE), electrical resistance
- Thermal imaging
- Digital image correlation (DIC) with thermal imaging
Deliverables
- Stressed oxidation testing under high velocity, high water content atmosphere up to 1450C
- Thermal barrier coated (TBC) superalloy system evaluation
- Environmental barrier coated (EBC) ceramic matrix composite evaluation
- CMAS hot corrosion evaluation of TBC or EBC systems
- Health-monitoring to detect damage development under above conditions
Major Equipment and Specific Minor Equipment
- Plasma Powders High Velocity Oxygen Flame Powder Spray System
- Horizontal MTS hydraulic universal testing machine
- ARAMIS 5M DIC SYSTEM with Thermography
- Digital Wave Acoustic Emission System
- Epsilon high temperature extensometer
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