Course Description
Learn the fundamentals and apply them to hypersonic applications
The topics below will be covered in the three-day short course (module sequence to be determined):
- Module 1 History of hypersonic flight and design (45 mins)
- Module 2 Hypersonic aerothermodynamics (2 hrs)
- Module 3 Colloidal Processing, Shaping Methods, and Sintering of UHTCs (2.5 hrs)
- Module 4 Introduction to Mechanical Properties of Ceramics (1 hr)
- Module 5 Thermal properties of ceramics (1 hr)
- Module 6 Applications of Thermal and Mechanical Properties (1 hr)
- Module 7 Materials for RF and IR performance (1 hr)
- Module 8 Composites including carbon/carbon and ceramic matrix composites and their manufacture (2 hr)
- Module 9 Materials for Radiative Cooling (30 mins)
Please note: This course is an expanded version of the Virtual Hypersonic Workshop from January 2025. Course notes will be made available electronically without the ability to download or print. This is a Distribution A event.
Course Format
3 hours of instruction per day | 12 hours of instruction total | Virtually from 1–4 p.m. ET
Registration Pricing
- Non-member pricing: $695
- Member pricing: $595
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.
