Course Description
Learn the materials science and engineering of ultra-high temperature ceramic (UHTC) materials, ceramic matrix composites (including carbon-carbon composites), and some refractory metals to support design and manufacturing sustainment
Please note: This course was previously taught at the 2024 and 2025 CMS meetings. Course notes will be made available electronically without the ability to download or print. This is a Distribution A event.
This short course will cover:
- History of hypersonic flight and design
- Hypersonic aerothermodynamics and materials challenges
- Introduction to mechanical properties
- Thermal properties
- Applications of thermal and mechanical properties
- Composites including carbon/carbon and ceramic matrix composites
Course Format
In-person | 7 hours of instruction
Registration Pricing
- Non-member: $495
- Member: $395
Professor Rodney Trice
Professor Rodney Trice, whose home department is in the School of Materials Engineering at Purdue University, has focused on many fundamental and applied research topics over the last 25 years. Prof. Trice, his students, and his faculty collaborators have investigated structure-property relationships of plasma-sprayed thermal barrier coatings at high temperature, researched the effect of petroleum-based and biofuel impurities on degradation of thermal barrier coatings, and established the importance of the suspension plasma spray process for industrial purposes. Prof. Trice begin working in the hypersonics research area in 2010. He is currently investigating the following hypersonic materials related topics: high-temperature high-emissivity coatings for carbon/carbon composites, processing of IR and RF windows, direct ink write of SiC short fiber/SiC composites, digital light projection of UHTCs and RF window materials, novel energy absorbing ceramic for RDEs, and powder-processing schemes to fabricate ceramics into complex shapes. His current research is supported by industrial sources, NAVSEA, ONR, BETO, AFRL, and AFOSR. He is a Fellow of the American Ceramic Society and handles ceramic-related submissions for Additive Manufacturing (IF=11). Prof. Trice was a founding member of the Hypersonic Advanced Manufacturing Technology Center (HAMTC) on Purdue’s campus. Prof. Trice has developed a unique Materials for Hypersonics course that he teaches at Purdue. This short course is based on the Purdue course; it has been taught on military bases and at various national conferences.
