scholarly journals Analysis of Load Optimization in Solid Rocket Motor Propellant Grain with Pressure Cure

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Zhanxin Cui ◽  
Haiyang Li ◽  
Zhibin Shen ◽  
Huiru Cui

At present, the casting of large-size motors often adopts pressure cure. This technology can effectively reduce the risk of damage to the structural integrity of the grain in the case-bonded casting solid rocket motor. In this paper, ABAQUS is used to establish a finite element model of star-shaped grains. The whole process of pressure cure was simulated and modeled, and the Python script was redeveloped. The Evol evolutionary algorithm was used in ISIGHT to optimize the load parameters such as pressure value, attenuation coefficient of the relief curve, and the attenuation coefficient of the cooling curve. The effects of different pressure values and different cooling and depressurizing rates on the residual stress and strain were analyzed. The optimization results show that the closer the pressure value is to the theoretical pressure, the more significant the effect of pressure cure. However, the effect of stress and strain reduction in different directions is slightly different. The different cooling and pressure relief rates have a great influence on the process quantity. Pressure cure works best when the pressure attenuation coefficient is equal to 6850, and the temperature attenuation coefficient is equal to 8650. The optimization analysis of pressure curing provides a reference for engineering practice.

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Jian-Liang Gong ◽  
Desong Fan

The coupling thermal and mechanical effect on submerged nozzles is important in the design of modern rockets upon thermal loading and aerodynamic pressure. In this paper, a simulation with the subroutine of nonuniform pressure and nonuniform heat transfer coefficient was conducted to study the thermo-structural response of a submerged nozzle at the pressure 6 MPa and stagnation temperature 3200 K. Both the aerodynamic parameters and heat coefficients were obtained through analyzing the flow field. It was found that the thermal loading had an important influence on the stress of throat insert for the solid rocket motor (SRM). The hoop stress increases at first and then decreases with the increase of time for the throat insert. The ground hot firing test of SRM with a submerged nozzle was carried out. The experimental results showed that the structural integrity of the submerged nozzle is very normal during SRM operation. The present method is reasonable, which can be applied to study the thermo-structural response of submerged nozzle for SRM.


2019 ◽  
Vol 293 ◽  
pp. 04005
Author(s):  
Zhi-Bin Shen ◽  
Liang Zhang ◽  
Yi-Fei Li

The structural integrity of solid rocket motor(SRM) grain is severely tested owing to the combined action of low temperature and pressure load under the load case of low temperature ignition. The three dimensional finite element model of SRM was created to analyze the structural integrity of the SRM grain subjected to low temperature and ignition pressure based on three dimensional viscoelastic finite element method via MSC.Patran/Marc. Meanwhile, cold pressurization test was applied on certain SRM. The experimental result and numerical result were compared based on uncoupling principal of temperature and pressure. The result show that the safety factor of solid rocket motor grain is 2.46 which can meet the requirement of structural integrity. The experimental results are in good agreement with the simulation results. Relevant research methods and conclusions can provide reference for the design, analysis and test of SRMs.


2016 ◽  
Vol 58 ◽  
pp. 594-600 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiang Guo ◽  
Jiang-Tao Zhang ◽  
Mei Zhang ◽  
Li-Sheng Liu ◽  
Peng-Cheng Zhai ◽  
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2014 ◽  
Vol 1030-1032 ◽  
pp. 268-271
Author(s):  
Xiao Zhang ◽  
Jian Zheng ◽  
Wei Peng ◽  
Zhi Xu Gu

In this paper, the influence of Poisson's ratio on the solid propellant’s structure and properties was summarized. Methods and important results were introduced, which indicated the research progress in the relationship between Poisson’s ratio and structural integrity of solid rocket motor (SRM).


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