Chapter 12. Materials Safety
Michael D. Pedley, Ph.D.
Materials and Processes Branch, Johnson Space Center, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Houston, Texas
Contents
12.1 Toxic Offgassing
360
By Tony Brown
12.2 Stress-Corrosion Cracking
363
By Giancarlo Bussu, Ph.D.
12.3 Conclusions
373
It goes without saying that all flight hardware is fabricated from materials, and safe and reliable materials and materials processes are essential to safety in space. Materials safety covers a very wide range of material and process technical issues, which simply cannot be covered in a single chapter of a book. For many years, the safety community focused on a limited subset of material and process requirements as key elements to assure safety:
▪ Materials ...
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