Design and evaluation of carbon fibre-reinforced launch packages with segmented, copper and molybdenum fibre armatures

Fibre armatures have been studied both dynamically and statically to gain insight in their electrothermal and mechanical behaviour. In the first part of this paper, the results of launch experiments with single and multi-segment copper and molybdenum fibre armatures integrated in carbon-fibre reinforced launch packages are discussed. The launch...