1:40 PM to 3:00 PM Concurrent Sessions Thursday, January 29, 2026
Ablative and Reusable TPS Development, Testing, and Modeling 2
Session Chairs: Dr Matthew Gasch - NASA Ames Research Ctr and Dr Steven Violette - Fiber Materials Inc
1:40 PM - 2:00 PM
Kinetics and Evolved Gas Analysis of the Polymer to Ceramic Transition in Polysiloxane Based Thermal Protection Coatings Presenter: Dr Brody Bessire - NASA Ames Research Ctr
2:00 PM - 2:20 PM
Making and testing of high temperature coatings for reusable TPS with ceramics and UHTC approaches Presenter: Dr Corson Cramer - Oak Ridge National Lab Authors: Dr Steven Bullock - Oak Ridge National Lab, Ms Ashli Clark - Oak Ridge National Lab, Dr Michelle Kidder - Oak Ridge National Lab, Dr Gregory Larsen - Oak Ridge National Lab, Dr Jacob Mohar - Oak Ridge National Lab, Dr Nathaniel Olson - NASA JSC, Dr Adam Sidor - NASA
2:20 PM - 2:40 PM
Innovative and Cost-Effective Framework for Hypersonic Materials Testing Presenter: Dr Aaron Dufrene - CUBRC
2:40 PM - 3:00 PM
RADICAL Rapid Discovery Evolution and Testing of High Temperature Materials and Concepts Presenter: Dr Jeffery Aguiar - Lockheed Martin Co
