This third report presents combustion results of 1/4 scaled motors of the H-I apogee motor with various defects such as bubbles, case/liner and liner/propellant separations, and propellant notch and crack under X-ray TV observation, and the relation between the defects and the combustion properties was determined.
Research on Reliability Criteria of Upper Stage Solid Rocket Motors. 3. Firing Test of Scaled Motors with Various Defects
1996
66 pages
Report
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English
Rocket Engines & Motors , Rocket Propellants , Combustion & Ignition , Space Launch Vehicles & Support Equipment , Defects , Solid propellant rocket engines , Upper stage rocket engines , Apogee boost motors , Japanese spacecraft , Bubbles , Cracks , Notches , X-ray radiography , Computer aided tomography , Solid rocket combustion , Case bonded propellants , Solid rocket propellants , Rocket linings , Combustion physics , Combustion chemistry , Separation , Failure mode analysis , Scale models , Foreign technology , Firing Tests(Rockets)