Using heat shield, especially in throat area has a significant effect on combustion chamber pressure and thermal efficiency of solid fuel engines. Precise prediction of the regression of throat area for different pressures, will lead to optimal design of the motors, specifically for those of long burnout times. In this work, erosion of graphite nozzles employed in solid propellant motors with a...

This review intends to begin to build a bridge between our understanding of the effect of motor rehabilitation and brain plasticity on recovery after hemiparetic stroke. It discusses the impact of intensive post-stroke motor rehabilitation on motor recovery. This is followed by an overview of our current understanding, based on human brain mapping technologies, of brain plasticity underlying sp...

Figure 2: Average z-score of the top 5 correlation coeff. in left motor cortex, right motor cortex used as the seed region a) The constant-time experiment with 5 combinations of (TR, Ntp). Solid line is the fit to the equation y=c√Ntp, c is a constant). b) The constant Ntp experiment with 5 combinations of (TR, Acq. time). Temporal Resolution in Resting State Time-series Acquisitions for Functi...

The shuffle motor is a electrostatic stepper motor that employs a mechanical transformation to obtain high forces and small steps. A model has been made to calculate the driving voltage, step size and maximum load to pull as well as the optimal geometry. Tests results are an effective step size of about 85 nm and a maximum produced force of about 40 pN at 40V clamping voltage and 25 V actuator ...

Large explosive class 1.3 solid .propellant rocket motors utilizing polybutadiene binder, aluminum fuel, and ammonium perchlorate oxidizer are typically considered explosively vlsafell. That is, the required stimulus is so large that motor detonation is extremely unlikely, even when donored by a sizeable high explosive charge. Two large ground cratering events have occurred during recent years ...

This paper describes work on early detection of space launch vehicle failures that could lead to loss of control during ascent. The particular focus is on the Solid Rocket Motor (SRM) comprising First Stage of the Crew Launch Vehicle (CLV). Some of the most important failure modes leading to loss of vehicle control are caused by hot gases ejected from the SRM combustion chamber through a case b...

* Technical Program Manager † Visiting Scholar ‡ Research Scientist § Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana Copyright  2001 by Center for Simulation of Advanced Rockets. Published by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Inc., with permission. Abstract We describe our numerical method for threedimensional simulations of s...