Vertically Integrated Capability

Hyper-Therm HTC maintains a full-service product design center with world-class expertise in composite materials and structures. Managed by a multi-disciplined engineering staff with graduate degrees from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Cornell University, Caltech, John Hopkins University, and University of Delaware, Hyper-Therm HTC enjoys nearly 100 years cumulative industrial experience specifically in the design, analysis, test and manufacture of composite primary structures for aircraft, spacecraft and aerospace propulsion system applications. Whether producing components to “build-to-print” or “build-to-spec” requirements, allow Hyper-Therm HTC‘s engineers to assist you in your component design to ensure functional performance, cost and producibility.

Hyper-Therm HTC's manufacturing facility includes eight (8) fully automated CVI/CVD reactors capable of producing high quality engineered coating systems and ceramic composite components up to 3-feet in diameter and 4-feet in length. Hyper-Therm HTC maintains a fully equipped machine shop capable of precision diamond finishing of high-tolerance ceramic composite components

Hyper-Therm HTC's textile preform fabrication center includes a 144-carrier braiding machine that is capable of producing triaxially woven fiber preforms up to 1.5-feet in diameter and 12-feet in length.

Hyper-Therm HTC maintains an in-house test laboratory equipped with multiple state-of-the-art universal loading machines capable of elevated temperature mechanical property characterization up to 1400°C in air, multiple tensile stress-rupture frames capable of evaluating material durability up to 1500°C in oxidizing environments, and a well equipped microstructural analysis laboratory. To aid customers with product feasibility and preliminary design, Hyper-Therm HTC has accumulated an extensive material properties database on C-fiber/SiC-matrix and SiC-fiber/SiC-matrix composites that include in-plane, interlaminar, stress concentration, loaded hole, fracture toughness, and stress-rupture properties as a function of fiber orientation, including (0/90), (0/±45/90) and (±45) laminate lay-ups, and several axisymmetric braided architectures. A large database on reticulated silicon and silicon carbide foams is also available and includes shear strength, compression strength, Poisson’s ratio, and hydraulic pressure drop (liquid and gas flows) properties as a function of various cell sizes and relative densities.