Development of strand burner for solid propellant burning rate studies

High-pressure Burning Rate Studies of Solid Rocket Propellants

Increased rocket motor performance is a major driver in the development of solid rocket propellant formulations for chemical propulsion systems. The use of increased operating pressure is an option to improve performance potentially without the cost of reformulation. A technique has been developed to obtain burning rate data across a range of pressures from ambient to 345 MPa. The technique com...

A novel technique for the continuous evaluation of a burning rate of solid rocket propellant by using IR thermography

In this study, a novel technique for evaluating continuously burning rate of cylindrical cores made of a solid homogeneous propellant is presented. The propellant core was placed in the tube made of pyrolytic graphite (pyrographite). The burning rate of the rocket propellant has been determined by monitoring the burning front/zone movement on the external surface of the pyrographite tube by usi...

بررسی تاثیر میزان و اندازه ذرات AP و RDX بر سرعت سوزش و خواص مکانیکی نوعی سوخت XLDB با دود کاهش یافته

  In this paper the Cross-linked double base propellant (XLDB) based on polyurethanes comprised of polycaprolactone (PCP) as binder and ammonium perchlorate (AP) and RDX as solid oxidizer have been prepared and characterized. Propellant burning rate were determined by the strand burner method (Crawford bomb). In the AP-based composition, the energy is enhanced and the pressure exponent reduced ...

Response of a Burning Propellant Surface to Erosive Transients

Virtual prototyping of solid propellant rockets

cerns in rocket motor design because of the enormous cost of typical payloads and, in the case of the Space Shuttle and other manned vehicles, for the crew’s safety. In the spring of 1999, for example, a series of three consecutive launch failures collectively cost more than US$3.5 billion. The most notorious launch failure, of course, was the tragic loss of the Space Shuttle Challenger and its...