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Ground-Based Experimental Verification of the Predictive Model of Polymer-Based Materials Erosion by Atomic Oxygen in Leo

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Protection of Materials and Structures from the Low Earth Orbit Space Environment

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Understanding the mechanism for atomic oxygen (AO) erosion of hydrocarbon-based polymer materials is key to the predictable use of these materials in the reactive environment of low Earth orbit (LEO). What is clear in the research that has been carried out so far, is that the mechanism is quite complex and relies upon the synergistic alliance of a number of processes. The process is not simply the sputtering of hydrocarbon atoms and fragments off of the surface by bombarding atoms and molecules, yet neither is it a simple chemical attack of the polymer structure. The mechanism has been named in a number of ways, all of which mean “bombardment enhanced surface chemical etching”.

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  1. Kleiman, J.I., Gudimenko, Yu., Iskanderova, Z.A., Lemberg, V., Tennyson, R.C., (1995), Predictive models of erosion in LEO space environment; a basis for development of an engineering software, Proceeding of the ICPMSE-3 Conference, Toronto, Kluwer Publishing House.

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  2. Cool, G.R., (1996), Ph.D. Thesis, University of Toronto, Toronto.

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  1. Institute for Aerospace Studies, University of Toronto, 4925 Dufferin Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M3H 5T6

    G. R. Cool & R. C. Tennyson

  2. Integrity Testing Laboratory Inc., 4925 Dufferin Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M3H 5T6

    J. I. Kleiman, Yu. Gudimenko & Z. A. Iskanderova

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  1. G. R. Cool
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  1. Integrity Testing Laboratory Inc., Toronto, Canada

    Jacob I. Kleiman

  2. Institute for Aerospace Studies, University of Toronto, Canada

    Roderick C. Tennyson

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Cool, G.R., Tennyson, R.C., Kleiman, J.I., Gudimenko, Y., Iskanderova, Z.A. (1999). Ground-Based Experimental Verification of the Predictive Model of Polymer-Based Materials Erosion by Atomic Oxygen in Leo. In: Kleiman, J.I., Tennyson, R.C. (eds) Protection of Materials and Structures from the Low Earth Orbit Space Environment. Space Technology Proceedings, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4768-2_8

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