Tensile Mechanical Properties of HTPB Propellant at Low Temperature

2018 ◽  
Vol 765 ◽  
pp. 54-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiang Dong Chen ◽  
Xin Long Chang ◽  
You Hong Zhang ◽  
Bin Wang ◽  
Qing Zhang ◽  
...  

To study the low temperature effects of tensile mechanical properties on Hydroxyl-terminated polybutadiene (HTPB) propellant, a quasi-static mechanical experiment was conducted. The results show that tensile mechanical parameters are closely related to strain rate and low temperature. With the decrease of temperature and increase of strain rate, the modulus and tensile strength of HTPB propellant increase obviously. Based on the time-temperature equivalence principle (TTEP), the master curves of tensile strength and initial modulus for HTPB propellant were obtained, which can facilitate the structural integrity analysis of the propellant. The damage of propellant is matrix tearing and dewetting between the filled particles and matrix.

Polymers ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (13) ◽  
pp. 2174
Author(s):  
Diana Gregor-Svetec ◽  
Mirjam Leskovšek ◽  
Blaž Leskovar ◽  
Urška Stanković Elesini ◽  
Urška Vrabič-Brodnjak

Polylactic acid (PLA) is one of the most suitable materials for 3D printing. Blending with nanoparticles improves some of its properties, broadening its application possibilities. The article presents a study of composite PLA matrix filaments with added unmodified and lignin/polymerised lignin surface-modified nanofibrillated cellulose (NFC). The influence of untreated and surface-modified NFC on morphological, mechanical, technological, infrared spectroscopic, and dynamic mechanical properties was evaluated for different groups of samples. As determined by the stereo and scanning electron microscopy, the unmodified and surface-modified NFCs with lignin and polymerised lignin were present in the form of plate-shaped agglomerates. The addition of NFC slightly reduced the filaments’ tensile strength, stretchability, and ability to absorb energy, while in contrast, the initial modulus slightly improved. By adding NFC to the PLA matrix, the bending storage modulus (E’) decreased slightly at lower temperatures, especially in the PLA samples with 3 wt% and 5 wt% NFC. When NFC was modified with lignin and polymerised lignin, an increase in E’ was noticed, especially in the glassy state.


Metals ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. 791 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kaipeng Wang ◽  
Fengjiang Wang ◽  
Ying Huang ◽  
Kai Qi

Sn-58Bi eutectic solder is the most recommended low temperature Pb-free solder but is also limited from the interfacial embrittlement of Bi segregation. Since the quaternary Sn-38Bi-1.5Sb-0.7Ag solder provides a similar melting point as Sn-58Bi eutectic, this paper systematically investigated the properties of this solder from wettability, bulk tensile properties, interfacial microstructure in solder joints with a Cu substrate, interfacial evolution in joints during isothermal aging and the shear strength on ball solder joints with effect of aging conditions. The results were also compared with Sn-58Bi solder. The wettability of solder alloys was evaluated with wetting balance testing, and the quaternary Sn-38Bi-1.5Sb-0.7Ag solder had a better wettability than Sn-58Bi solder on the wetting time. Tensile tests on bulk solder alloys indicated that the quaternary Sn-38Bi-1.5Sb-0.7Ag solder had a higher tensile strength and similar elongation compared with Sn-58Bi solder due to the finely distributed SnSb and Ag3Sn intermetallics in the solder matrix. The tensile strength of solder decreased with a decrease in the strain rate and with an increase in temperature, while the elongation of solder was independent of the temperature and strain rate. When soldering with a Cu substrate, a thin Cu6Sn5 intermetallic compound (IMC) is produced at the interface in the solder joint. Measurement on IMC thickness showed that the quaternary Sn-38Bi-1.5Sb-0.7Ag had a lower IMC growth rate during the following isothermal aging. Ball shear test on solder joints illustrated that the quaternary Sn-38Bi-1.5Sb-0.7Ag solder joints had higher shear strength than Sn-58Bi solder joints. Compared with the serious deterioration on shear strength of Sn-58Bi joints from isothermal aging, the quaternary Sn-38Bi-1.5Sb-0.7Ag solder joints presented a superior high temperature stability. Therefore, the quaternary Sn-38Bi-1.5Sb-0.7Ag solder provides better performances and the possibility to replace Sn-58Bi solder to realize low temperature soldering.


2010 ◽  
Vol 152-153 ◽  
pp. 1151-1155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xu Chang Li ◽  
Jian Jiao ◽  
Jun Yan Yao ◽  
Liang Wang

By means of a tensile instrument and SEM, the mechanical property parameters of HTPB propellant test samples with different formulas were tested, and their microscopic fracture cross section patterns were observed. Take advantage of these testing results, the relationship between microscopic structure and mechanical properties of HTPB propellant was studied. The results show that the mechanical properties of a propellant are closely related to its microscpic structure state. The structural integrity of propellant is mainly influenced by the bond effect of the interface between binder and solid particles, solid particle’s shape, size and its distribution, the content of binder matrix, etc. These factors have important effects on the mechanical properties of propellant.


2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (20) ◽  
pp. 4231
Author(s):  
Oskari Haiko ◽  
Antti Kaijalainen ◽  
Sakari Pallaspuro ◽  
Jaakko Hannula ◽  
David Porter ◽  
...  

In this paper, the effects of different tempering temperatures on a recently developed ultrahigh-strength steel with 0.4 wt.% carbon content were studied. The steel is designed to be used in press-hardening for different wear applications, which require high surface hardness (650 HV/58 HRC). Hot-rolled steel sheet from a hot strip mill was austenitized, water quenched and subjected to 2-h tempering at different temperatures ranging from 150 °C to 400 °C. Mechanical properties, microstructure, dislocation densities, and fracture surfaces of the steels were characterized. Tensile strength greater than 2200 MPa and hardness above 650 HV/58 HRC were measured for the as-quenched variant. Tempering decreased the tensile strength and hardness, but yield strength increased with low-temperature tempering (150 °C and 200 °C). Charpy-V impact toughness improved with low-temperature tempering, but tempered martensite embrittlement at 300 °C and 400 °C decreased the impact toughness at −40 °C. Dislocation densities as estimated using X-ray diffraction showed a linear decrease with increasing tempering temperature. Retained austenite was present in the water quenched and low-temperature tempered samples, but no retained austenite was found in samples subjected to tempering at 300 °C or higher. The substantial changes in the microstructure of the steels caused by the tempering are discussed.


2013 ◽  
Vol 811 ◽  
pp. 146-151
Author(s):  
Chen Wei Chen ◽  
Fu Xin Yang ◽  
Li Xin Lu ◽  
Jin Xie ◽  
Li Li

The Flexible Intermediate Bulk Container (FIBC) is a flexible transportation packaging container that is weaved by polyolefin plastic ribbon-like filament, which is widely used in the storage and transportation of granular and powder materials. When the FIBC was affected by environment factors synthetically under using, such as light, heat and air etc, it would come into degradation and its mechanical properties reduced. In this study, the basic mechanical properties of polypropylene FIBC base material were tested by tensile experiment and the reason of main base material mechanical properties difference between theoretical value and experimental value was analyzed. Based on the FIBC different using environments, the natural exposure experiment and high/low temperature experiments were carried out, we took tensile strength holding ratio and elongation holding ratio as evaluating indicator and analyzed law of influence of the different experiment condition on base material mechanical properties, which provided valuable reference for FIBC designing and manufacturing. Along with the experiment time increased, the color of base material changed from milk white to yellow slowly, the tensile strength and elongation reduced, the influencing grade was as follow: natural exposure>high temperature>low temperature. The results of natural exposure experiment showed that there was difference of anti-aging performance among the FIBC base material, the mechanical properties of woof fabric and belt reduced evidently, while others reduced slowly. For high (45°C)/low (-25°C) temperature experiments, the reduction of FIBC base materials mechanical properties were not obvious and woof fabric reduced a little faster comparatively.


2017 ◽  
Vol 898 ◽  
pp. 104-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peng Qi ◽  
Bo Long Li ◽  
Wen Jian Lv ◽  
Tong Bo Wang ◽  
Zuo Ren Nie

The effect of the different electromagnetic stirring frequency after low temperature pouring on microstructures and mechanical properties of Al-7Si-0.42 Mg-0.1Cu alloys was studied. It was found that the primary α-Al becomes smaller and tended to be spherical morphology, and the particles were uniformly distributed after electromagnetic stirring. The tensile strength of alloys improved gradually from 193.02 MPa to 212.54 MPa, and the elongation increased from 3.73% to 6.67% when the stirring frequency was 10 Hz. From the fracture morphology, the fracture for alloy stirred at frequency of 10 Hz showed more dimples than that without stirring. When the stirring frequency increased to 15 Hz, the microstructures of primary α-Al appeared to be dendritic structures, and the grains became coarse. As a result, the 10 Hz was the best electromagnetic stirring frequency.


Author(s):  
Jun Hua ◽  
Zhirong Duan ◽  
Chen Song ◽  
Qinlong Liu

In this paper, the mechanical properties, including elastic properties, deformation mechanism, dislocation formation and crack propagation of graphene/Cu (G/Cu) nanocomposite under uniaxial tension are studied by molecular dynamics (MD) method and the strain rate dependence is also investigated. Firstly, through the comparative analysis of tensile results of single crystal copper (Cu), single slice graphene/Cu (SSG/Cu) nanocomposite and double slice graphene/Cu (DSG/Cu) nanocomposite, it is found that the G/Cu nanocomposites have larger initial equivalent elastic modulus and tensile ultimate strength comparing with Cu and the more content of graphene, the greater the tensile strength of composites. Afterwards, by analyzing the tensile results of SSG/Cu nanocomposite under different strain rates, we find that the tensile ultimate strength of SSG/Cu nanocomposite increases with the increasing of strain rate gradually, but the initial equivalent elastic modulus basically remains unchanged.


2014 ◽  
Vol 941-944 ◽  
pp. 695-700
Author(s):  
Xiao Yan Song ◽  
Pei Wen Zhang

Finite element analysis is carried out on the dynamic splitting tensile mechanical properties of reinforced concrete with LS-DYNA. The impact of strain rate and reinforcement ratio on the dynamic tensile strength and failure mode of reinforced concrete is considered in the calculation. The result shows that the form of reinforcement and reinforcement ratio has a greater impact on the failure mode and tensile strength of concrete. The dynamic splitting tensile strength of reinforced concrete has a certain strain rate effect and its splitting tensile strength increases with the strain rate; the splitting tensile strength of reinforced concrete also increases with its reinforcement ratio.


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