Thermomechanical structure suitable for a space environment

摘要

The structure (1) has walls formed with a hole (2) and lined with filaments (3), where the filaments are greater in length than distance separating an outside of a liquid ammonia heat pipe (4) from an inside of the hole such that the filaments bend when the pipe is introduced. The hole is equipped with the pipe. The walls are included between 30 and 100 filaments per square centimeter, where length of the filaments is between 0.2 and 5 mm and diameter of the filaments is between 0.3 and 0.8 mm. The walls are covered with grease for allowing better thermal conduction. An independent claim is also included for a process for producing a monolithic metal mechanical-thermal structure.