Course 12
MATERIALS FOR SPACE APPLICATIONS
MARIA DO CARMOS DE ANDRADE NONO
COURSE
The materials for space applications are functionals in its majority , in other words, they are developed to fulfill specific requirements since the space environment presents uniques characteristics such as: big thermal gradient (-80 a 150 oC), ionizing radiations, electromagnetics interferences (x rays and gamma radiations), electrostatic discharge, impacts of micrometeorites and space debris. In this way, the success of a space mission depends on the high reliability performance of the materials which compose the equipaments. In satellites, for example, all the systems embedded must work with harmony to accomplish their mission in order to prevent the slightest possibility of failure.
Thus, the development of materials that reduce the space effects in space equipaments and living beings, considering the International Space Station, has been encouraged.
In this course space environments near Earth will be presented such as the requirements to differents parts of satellites and the materials used in the components of the embedded equipaments.
SPEAKER
Professor Maria do Carmo graduated and has a master degree in Materials Science and Engineering from Universidade Federal de São Carlos, she has a doctorate in Aeronautical and Mechanical Engineering from Instituto tecnológico de Aeronáutica and a post doctorate degree from University of Wisconsin, EUA.
Currently, Maria do Carmo is a senior titular researcher and Professor of Engineering and Space Technology at Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais e Inovação (INPE), she is coordinator of the research group in Micro e Nanotecnologias em Cerâmicas e Compósitos (TECAMB) at the associated laboratory of Sensors and Materials from the Associated Laboratory coordinating from INPE.
PREREQUISITE
None.
PRACTICAL PART
No practical part.