Abstract: A tool suitable for use in making a ceramic matrix composite part. The tool includes a graphite body. The graphite body can include multiple gas access holes. A porous surface of the graphite body can support the ceramic matrix composite part. The porous surface of the graphite body can be hermetically sealed.

Abstract: Carbon-silicon carbide brake preforms are manufactured by carbonizing a blend of carbon (e.g., polyacrylonitrile) fibers and thermosetting pitch resin, optionally along with a lubricant such as graphite,.to provide an intermediate product having open porosity and subsequently filling the pores of the intermediate product with silicon by a melt infiltration process. Molded articles that consist principally of carbon, that have relatively high strength and resistance to decomposition by frictional heat, and that are suitable for melt infiltration with silicon, are produced by, e.g.

Abstract: Carbon-silicon carbide brake preforms are manufactured by carbonizing a blend of carbon (e.g., polyacrylonitrile) fibers and thermosetting pitch resin, optionally along with a lubricant such as graphite,.to provide an intermediate product having open porosity and subsequently filling the pores of the intermediate product with silicon by a melt infiltration process. Molded articles that consist principally of carbon, that have relatively high strength and resistance to decomposition by frictional heat, and that are suitable for melt infiltration with silicon, are produced by, e.g.

Abstract: Carbon-silicon carbide brake preforms are manufactured by carbonizing a blend of carbon (e.g., polyacrylonitrile) fibers and thermosetting pitch resin, optionally along with a lubricant such as graphite, to provide an intermediate product having open porosity and subsequently filling the pores of the intermediate product with silicon by a melt infiltration process. Molded articles that consist principally of carbon, that have relatively high strength and resistance to decomposition by frictional heat, and that are suitable for melt infiltration with silicon, are produced by, e.g.

Abstract: The invention provides for oxidatively resistant surface coated carbon/carbon composites and other graphite-like material, a method for the preparation of these materials, and their use in high temperature applications, preferably in brake for airplanes. The surface coated carbon/carbon composite or graphite-like material, which is resistant to oxidation at high temperatures comprises a fiber-reinforced carbon/carbon composite or graphite having a First Coating (A) of silicon and/or silicon carbide, and a Second Coating (B) comprising a material containing phosphorus chemically bound to oxygen which is chemically bound to silicon.

Abstract: Carbon-silicon carbide brake preforms are manufactured by carbonizing a blend of carbon (e.g., polyacrylonitrile) fibers and thermosetting pitch resin, optionally along with a lubricant such as graphite, to provide an intermediate product having open porosity and subsequently filling the pores of the intermediate product with silicon by a melt infiltration process. Molded articles that consist principally of carbon, that have relatively high strength and resistance to decomposition by frictional heat, and that are suitable for melt infiltration with silicon, are produced by, e.g.

Abstract: The invention provides for oxidatively resistant surface coated carbon/carbon composites and other graphite-like material, a method for the preparation of these materials, and their use in high temperature applications, preferably in brakes for airplanes. The surface coated carbon/carbon composite or graphite-like material, which is resistant to oxidation at high temperatures comprises a fiber-reinforced carbon/carbon composite or graphite having a First Coating (A) of silicon and/or silicon carbide, and a Second Coating (B) comprising a material containing phosphorus chemically bound to oxygen and said oxygen is chemically bound to silicon.

Abstract: The present invention relates to porous mat gas fired radiant burner panels utilizing improved reverberatory screens. The purpose of these screens is to boost the overall radiant output of the burner relative to a burner using no screen and the same fuel-air flow rates. In one embodiment, the reverberatory screen is fabricated from ceramic composite material, which can withstand higher operating temperatures than its metallic equivalent. In another embodiment the reverberatory screen is corrugated. The corrugations add stiffness which helps to resist creep and thermally induced distortions due to temperature or thermal expansion coefficient differences. As an added benefit, it has been unexpectedly discovered that the corrugations further increase the radiant efficiency of the burner. In a preferred embodiment, the reverberatory screen is both corrugated and made from ceramic composite material.

Abstract: A ceramic fiber reinforced filter is prepared by depositing a thin filtration layer of preselected pore size on a more porous ceramic support. The filter is characterized by a low pressure drop across the filtration layer in operation and easy back pressure pulse cleaning.

Abstract: Carbon or ceramic matrix composites are protected from oxidation at high temperatures by a layer formed from a mixture of solid particles in a binder which is cured and then coated with ceramic material by chemical vapor infiltration.

Abstract: An attachment fitting for securing metal structures to carbon-carbon structures which tightens as temperature increases. The fitting is particularly useful in high temperature aerospace applications such as hypersonic aircraft. The fitting basically connects an upstanding carbon-carbon blade on a carbon-carbon structure to a metal clevis which fits snugly thereover. A ceramic bushing is fitted in a transverse hole in the blade. A transverse bolt hole extends through the clevis and bushing. A bolt in the bolt hole is tightened with one or more nuts to tightly press the clevis against the busing and blade. The bolt and nut material is selected to have a lower coefficient of thermal expansion than the clevis so that differential thermal expansion between clevis and bolt keeps the joint tight at elevated temperatures.

Abstract: Ceramic matrix composites having a boron containing oxygen-scavenging sealant-forming region coextensive with the internal fibers and interface debonding layer and a ceramic matrix material provide superior resistance to oxidation.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method of forming carbon-carbon composites wherein prereaction of the filler ingredients takes place prior to the prepregging operation, thereby ensuring that the sealant phase is both homogeneous and unsegregated on a microscopic scale. Composites prepared from several constituent inhibitor powders often have one inhibitor component segregated within the carbon fabric and fiber bundles during compaction, debulking and press curing. Composites prepared from prereacted powders have inhibitor constituents mixed on an atomic scale. Thus, the oxide sealant which forms from the prereacted particulate filler has an optimized composition with all of the desirable qualities, such as level viscosity, good wetting, low water solubility, low reactivity with the carbon fibers and carbon matrix during graphitization and low reactivity with the chemically vapor deposited coating.

Abstract: An oxygen resistant high temperature composite structure comprises a carbonous matrix and reinforcing high temperature fibers disposed within said matrix, an outer refractory coating covering said matrix, boron, in elemental form and/or as a moiety of a compound dispersed throughout said structure, silicon, in elemental form and/or as a moiety of a compound dispersed throughout said structure, and titanium, in elemental form and/or as a moiety of a compound dispersed throughout said structure, said silicon and said boron oxidizing when exposed to a high temperature, oxidizing environment to form silicon oxide and boron oxide, and said titanium forming titanium oxide which stabilizes the molten phase of the boron oxide. Microcracks which form in the refractory coating are sealed by a molten glass which forms from oxidation of the boron, silicon and titanium, thereby preventing oxidation degradation of the underlying matrix.

Abstract: Composites comprising high-temperature fibers reinforcing a carbonous matrix are protected from oxidation by a B.sub.2 O.sub.3 -based glass which includes a refractory oxide to stabilize the viscosity of the glass. Precursors of B.sub.2 O.sub.3 and the refractory oxide are dispersed into a carbon char-yielding material; the material is used to impregnate sheets of fibers; the sheets are laid up as plies; and the laid-up plies are carbonized and graphitized using heat and pressure to form a composite structure. The composite structure is then coated with an additional mix of char-yielding material and precursors, and the coated structure is heated to carbonize the material and leave a seal coat on the structure. Then, an outer coating of a refractory material is deposited on the structure. Oxygen which seeps through the seal coat is initially scavenged at high temperatures by the RO and B.sub.2 O.sub.3 precursors, converting the same to a B.sub.2 O.sub.

Abstract: A pair of strut members are pivotally attached on either side of a dolly used to pivotally couple the front of a trailing trailer to the rear of a leading trailer. The struts are pivotal between an opened or in-use position in which any substantial pivotal movement of the dolly about relative to the leading trailer about a vertical axis is prevented and a closed or out-of-use position in which free pivotal movement of the dolly relative to the leading trailer is allowed.

Abstract: A coupler for connecting adjacent ends of clay pipe with a generally cylindrical flexible sealing member of urethane or the like having opposing inner and outer central grooves which extend circumferentially and pairs of circumferentially extending outer support grooves flanking the outer central groove. Rigid rings of fiberglass are provided in the grooves. The central ring has an inwardly extending stop portion and unitary sealing lips are provided on the interior surface of the sealing members between the support grooves of each pair.

Abstract: A system for finishing conventionally produced clay pipes having plain ends whereby the pipes are successively placed on mandrels which hold the pipes vertically at the bottom thereof on a first urethane table which is indexed successively through a number of stations, for example 60. At one station liquid urethane is poured into a mold formed between the pipe and mandrel to form a urethane collar. The pipes with this collar are successively transferred, to mandrels on one of two identical winding tables which are similarly indexed through a number of stations, for example 20. At a winding station on each winding table strands of fiberglass filaments are helically wound about the lower end of each pipe and the mandrel to form a bell on the pipe end. After curing, the pipes are then removed from the winding tables. Operations of the tables are under the control of a disclosed control circuit.