Original Article
  • Prediction of Ablation Properties of Polyimide Based Thermal Protective Composites under LEO and sub-LEO Environment

  • Inseok Jeon*, Seunghwa Yang**†

  • * Chung-ang University, The School of Energy System Engineering
    ** Chung-ang University, The Department of Energy System Engineering

  • 지구 저궤도 및 준저궤도 환경에서의 폴리이미드 기반 열보호 복합재료의 삭마특성 예측

  • 전인석* · 양승화**†

  • This article is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Correspondence to

  • Seunghwa Yang

  • ** Chung-ang University, The Department of Energy System Engineering

  • E-mail: fafala@cau.ac.kr