Couldn't a fire that started internal to the LOX tank / plumbing
behave similarly? Those Al-Li alloys are flammable in LOX, right?
Evan Daniel
On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 5:49 PM, Jake Anderson
<dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 12/09/16 06:36, Henry Spencer wrote:
Still an already brittle composite is going to get more brittle at cryo
On Sun, 11 Sep 2016, Keith Henson wrote:
I wonder what the loading sequence is? The thermal stress would be
awful on a sphere where half was a room temperature and the other half
was at LOX temp.
The usual sequence for helium bottles inside cryo tanks is to load the
helium last and unload it first. Most materials get stronger at low
temperatures, and of course gases are denser when cold, so you can get a lot
more helium in if you fill cold bottles with cold helium.
Henry
temps.
It looks like it goes from nothing to about 1.5x the diameter of the rocket
in 1 frame (at 60fps) then it seems to be just fuel + oxidiser burning to
me.
Weather its those specific tanks or something else my money is on something
small and high pressure letting go.
