Flow-Structural Interaction in Solid Rocket Motors
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This article reviews and summarizes recent work on flow-structural interaction in solid motors. This interaction is important because it can lead to rocket motor failure. In the first part of the document, an idealized model of the failure mechanism is developed to illustrate in simple terms how such an event can occur. In the second part of this article recently published numerical modeling work, which models flowstructural interactions in some detail, is summarized. The static test failure of the Titan solid rocket motor upgrade (SRMU) that occurred on 1 April 1991 demonstrated the importance of flow-structural modeling in the design of large solid rocket motors.
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