Félix BAN, Tobias SCHNEIDER, François FALEMPIN, Stephan SCHMIDT-WIMMER
DOI Number: XXX-YYY-ZZZ
Conference number: HiSST2024-00229
Ceramic Matrix Composites (CMCs) are highly studied and used for the range of supersonic and hypersonic applications over the world. With the collaboration of ArianeGroup Gmbh (AGG), MBDA has been developing such materials for its vehicles. Since the early 2000s MBDA, and its customer DGA, has selected the CARBOTEX® as the CMC that can be the structural material constituting the scramjets. This paper gives a short presentation on the CARBOTEX® and its variants (C/C and C/C-Si) and focuses on the studies that have been led over the last five years in the frame of manufacturing process optimization, material design understanding and thermo-mechanical characterization.