NASA Shuttle Orbital Windshield HVI
Hypervelocity Impact (HVI) stress created when a small but extremely fast-moving space particle impacts the NASA space shuttle orbiter windshield in space flight.
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Hypervelocity Impact Stress
Hypervelocity Impact Stress
The images below are of HVI (Hypervelocity Impact) defects created when small but extremely fast-moving space particles struck the space shuttle orbiter window in flight. The defects are characterized by loss of glass in a central pit, periphery fracture damage, the re‐fusing of glass, and the embedding of glass into the structure below causing a radial stress pattern. Subsurface cracks are not uncommon. They generally are close to plane‐parallel or make a slight angle with the surface.
NASA Shuttle Orbital Windshield HVI
Visible light image of Hypervelocity Impact (HVI) stress created when a small but extremely fast-moving space particle impacts the shuttle orbiter window in space flight.
NASA Shuttle Orbital Windshield HVI
Stress image of Hypervelocity Impact (HVI) stress created when a small but extremely fast-moving space particle impacts the shuttle orbiter window in space flight.
NASA Shuttle Orbital Windshield HVI
Visible light image of Hypervelocity Impact (HVI) stress created when a small but extremely fast-moving space particle impacts the shuttle orbiter window in space flight.
NASA Shuttle Orbital Windshield HVI
Shear Max image of Hypervelocity Impact (HVI) stress created when a small but extremely fast-moving space particle impacts the shuttle orbiter window in space flight.
NASA Shuttle Orbital Windshield HVI
Line plot of Max in-plane shear of Hypervelocity Impact (HVI) stress created when a small but extremely fast-moving space particle impacts the shuttle orbiter window in space flight.
NASA Shuttle Orbital Windshield HITF
HITF (Hypervelocity Impact Testing Facility) stress image of a NASA space shuttle orbiter windshield. HITF is a laboratory simulation of HVI (Hypervelocity Impact).
NASA Shuttle Orbital Windshield HITF
HITF (Hypervelocity Impact Testing Facility) visible light image of damage to a shuttle orbiter windshield. HITF is a laboratory simulation of HVI (Hypervelocity Impact).
NASA Shuttle Orbital Windshield
HITF (Hypervelocity Impact Testing Facility) stress image of damage to a shuttle orbiter windshield. HITF is a laboratory simulation of HVI (Hypervelocity Impact).
NASA Shuttle Orbital Windshield
Stress image of a bruise on a space shuttle orbiter windshield. Bruise was caused by the HVI (Hypervelocity Impact) of a particle hitting the windshield in space.
NASA Shuttle Orbital Windshield Bruise
Above is a visible light image of a bruise on a NASA space shuttle orbiter windshield. The image was acquired with a special GFP system developed in partnership with NASA.
NASA Shuttle Orbital Windshield HVI
Visible light image of damage to a shuttle orbiter windshield caused by HVI (Hypervelocity Impact). The image was acquired with a special GFP system developed in partnership with NASA.
NASA Shuttle Orbital Windshield Bruise
A bruise on a space shuttle windshield. Reflection is measured with a real-time stress measurement system like the GFP2600™. Transmission image is measured with a system like the GFP1600™.
Space Shuttle Windshield Chatter Checks
Stress images of space shuttle orbiter windshield chatter checks. The system that acquired the stress images is similar to the GFP1600™. Click the button below to read more!
Space Shuttle Windshield Chatter Checks
Stress images of shuttle orbiter windshield chatter checks. On the left, normal stress, and on the right you’ll see Shear 0. The system that acquired the images is similar to the GFP1600.
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