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The pressurized arc imaging facility at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) was designed, built, and tested in preliminary fashion during 1956–1958 under the sponsorship of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (1). A subsequent objective of the NASA program was to conduct ablation studies of materials under extremely rapid heating, in connection with atmospheric re-entry problems (2). In 1959, other programs were begun for the Wright Air Development Division and the Sandia Corporation, which were concerned, respectively, with heat conduction in materials and spectrographic studies of ablation products. These three programs (3–5) were completed in 1960. Since then, additional studies of ablation have been conducted for a private sponsor and SwRI has supported a variety of short experimental studies in the facility, particularly its use as a high-intensity light source for continuously pumping ruby lasers (6). A program of determining dynamic thermal and thermoelastic properties of materials is currently underway for the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. Incidental to its use as a research tool, the facility has been subject to extensive modifications and improvements throughout its five years of operation. Many more improvements are possible and are needed.
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Cook, J.C. (1964). A Four-Hundred Kilowatt Pressurized Arc Imaging Furnace. In: Glaser, P.E., Walker, R.F. (eds) Thermal Imaging Techniques. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-5645-3_6
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