Estimation of thermal properties of materials with application for inflatable spacecraft structure testing

The general method of iterative regularization is concerned with application to the estimation of material properties. The objective of this article is to estimate thermal and thermokinetic properties of advanced materials using the approach based on inverse methods. An experimental–computational system is presented for investigating the thermal and kinetics properties of composite materials by methods of inverse heat transfer problems and this is developed at the Thermal Laboratory of the Department of Space Systems Engineering, Moscow Aviation Institute. The system is aimed at investigating the materials in conditions of unsteady contact heating over a wide range of temperature changes and heating rates in vacuum, air and inert gas mediums.