On the Composite Solid Propellant Impregnated with Metallic Foil

HTPB-Polyurethane: A Versatile Fuel Binder for Composite Solid Propellant

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...

Integrated Simulation of Solid Propellant Rockets

This paper presents an overview of research activities at the Center for Simulation of Advanced Rockets (CSAR) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. CSAR is one of five university-based research centers funded by the U. S. Department of Energy as part of the Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative (ASCI). The purpose of ASCI is to advance the state of the art in computational si...

Analysis of cartilage-polydioxanone foil composite grafts.

This study presents an analytical investigation into the mechanical behavior of a cartilage-polydioxanone (PDS) plate composite grafts. Numerical methods are used to provide a first-order, numerical model of the flexural stiffness of a cartilage-PDS graft. Flexural stiffness is a measure of resistance to bending and is inversely related to the amount of deformation a structure may experience wh...

بررسی پارامترهای موثر بر کهولت پیشرانه‌‌های جامد مرکب بر پایه‌ی HTPB

HTPB based composite Solid propellants are the source of power for the propulsion of rockets and missiles. Since composite solid rocket propellants, used in rockets and missiles is the fastest degrading component of the complete system, shelf life of the system is mainly governed by the life of the propellants. During storage and transportation, the propellant grains are subjected to various co...