A.V.Luikov Heat and Mass Transfer Institute of the NAS of Belarus offers consumers a testing the resistance of materials and structures to impact loads on a ballistic installation under an outsourcing agreement or subcontracting.

A.V.Luikov Heat and Mass Transfer Institute of the NAS of Belarus has developed and put into operation a unique magnetoplasma light-gas throwing installation (ballistic installation), designed to test various materials and structures for impact resistance in vacuum, to test spacecraft anti-meteorite protection and to study the processes of high-speed interaction of bodies.

Balls with a diameter of 2.5–5 mm are used as strikers. Ballistic installation allows you to overclock balls up to a speed of 3 km/s.

The ballistic installation is equipped with a diagnostic complex for studying the processes of interaction of single high-speed particles with various targets, which includes a high-speed Photron Fastcam SA-Z camera with a maximum shooting frequency of 2.1 million frames per second, a 4-channel digital oscilloscope with a bandwidth of 1000 MHz, electrocontact time-of-flight velocity sensor of projectile particles.

The ballistic installation is widely used in the aviation, rocket and space industry, energy, materials science.

The Institute offers partners:
* testing the resistance of materials and structures to impact loads on a ballistic installation under an outsourcing agreement or subcontract;
* testing the resistance of materials and structures to impact loads on a ballistic installation under a distribution services agreement.

Modification of the ballistic installation (replacement of the acceleration channel with a Laval nozzle) makes it possible to obtain hypersonic flows in order to visualize and diagnose the hypersonic flow around bodies.

Compared to foreign analogues, the installation has a relatively small size, has a high survivability, which can significantly reduce the cost and time of ballistic tests.

On a ballistic installation, tests were carried out on the resistance of samples of heat-shielding coatings and multilayer structures of thermal protection of the landing module of the ExoMars project, samples of elements of the screen anti-meteorite protection of spacecraft, consisting of a duralumin substrate and a composite coating, plates made of aluminum alloys, polymethyl methacrylate and other targets.

A.V.Luikov Heat and Mass Transfer Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus is the largest scientific institution in the republic dealing with the solution of fundamental and applied problems of heat and mass transfer, fluid dynamics, power engineering, heat engineering, chemical physics, physics of combustion and explosion, nanotechnology, as well as the creation of energy-efficient and environmentally friendly technologies and equipment, apparatus and devices for power engineering and mechanical engineering, agro-industrial complex and construction industry, medicine, chemical, electronic, radio engineering, food industry, space industry.

The Institute carries out scientific, scientific-organizational, and scientific-production interaction with academic and industrial research institutes, universities, design bureaus, associations, and enterprises of Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Uzbekistan, Lithuania, Latvia, China, USA, India, Germany, Poland , Czech Republic, Israel, Brazil, Italy, France, and other countries.

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