Centro Sviluppo Materiali S.p.a.

Leofasi S.r.l.

Teodoro Valente

Mario Tului

Leonardo Pinzauti

Gianni Faggi

Giuliano Simonelli

Process for the manufacturing of ceramic-matrix composite layers resistant to very high temperatures, comprising the steps of: preparing the powders for the feeding of the deposition plant by wet mixing of the ceramics constituting the material in form of fine powders and atomizing the suspension in the presence of a hot air jet; and depositing by plasma thermal spraying with an inert gas flow and with a >30 kPa pressure in a deposition chamber. This process forms composite layers having a very high resistance, apt to be employed as coatings for vehicles, of the type destined to reenter Earth atmosphere from outer space and to be launched again therein.

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