{"id":124,"date":"2017-06-21T19:01:50","date_gmt":"2017-06-22T02:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pato.ac\/?page_id=124"},"modified":"2018-06-12T07:15:43","modified_gmt":"2018-06-12T14:15:43","slug":"engineering-design","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pato.ac\/index.php\/engineering-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Engineering &#038; design"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Multidimensional material response simulation of a full-scale tiled ablative heatshield<\/h2>\n<p>The Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) was protected during Mars atmospheric entry by a 4.5 meter diameter ablative heatshield, assembled in 113 tiles. The heatshield tiles were made of NASA\u2019s flagship porous ablative material, the Phenolic Impregnated Carbon Ablator (PICA). This study provides a detailed three-dimensional heat and mass transfer analysis of the full-scale MSL tiled heatshield.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-271\" src=\"https:\/\/pato.ac\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/MSL_3Dsimulation_PATO-300x123.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"405\" height=\"166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pato.ac\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/MSL_3Dsimulation_PATO-300x123.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pato.ac\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/MSL_3Dsimulation_PATO-768x314.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pato.ac\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/MSL_3Dsimulation_PATO.jpg 873w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 405px) 100vw, 405px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>References :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Full-scale Mars Science Laboratory tiled heatshield material response. J. B. E. Meurisse, J. Lachaud, C. Y. Tang, N. N. Mansour. 9th Ablation Workshop. August 30-31, 2017, Montana State University, USA. <a href=\"http:\/\/jeanlachaud.com\/research\/Meurisse2017_AW.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Presentation<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Multidimensional material response simulations of a full-scale tiled ablative heatshield. J. B. E. Meurisse, J. Lachaud, F. Panerai, C. Tang, N. N. Mansour. Aerospace Science and Technology. 76 : 497\u2013511, 2018. doi: 10.1016\/j.ast.2018.01.013\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/jeanlachaud.com\/research\/Meurisse2018_preprint.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Preprint<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Contact : Jeremie.B.Meurisse@nasa.gov<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multidimensional material response simulation of a full-scale tiled ablative heatshield The Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) was protected during Mars atmospheric entry by a 4.5 meter diameter ablative heatshield, assembled in 113 tiles. The heatshield tiles were made of NASA\u2019s flagship porous ablative material, the Phenolic Impregnated Carbon Ablator (PICA). This study provides a detailed three-dimensional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pato.ac\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/124"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pato.ac\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pato.ac\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pato.ac\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pato.ac\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/pato.ac\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329,"href":"https:\/\/pato.ac\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/124\/revisions\/329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pato.ac\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}