Evaluation of solid propellant rocket motor health and aging
conference paper
In this paper, an overview will be given of some of the techniques currently applied or under research at TNO Defence, Security and Safety and their contribution to (future) health and ageing evaluation of solid rocket motors. Emphasis of the work at TNO lies in the link between experiments and models. A smart combination of experimental techniques and models provide the researcher the possibility to make a more accurate motor health status evaluation, but it also gives the researcher tools to study the effect of possible future events like high temperature storage. Some of the techniques discussed will be the measurement of oxidative ageing of HTPB propellants with sensors developed at TNO and modeling of this process, the importance of pressurized mechanical characterization for assessing failure properties and crack propagation and the use of (embedded) sensors for health and ageing evaluation of solid rocket motors
TNO Identifier
183439
Source title
38th International Annual Conference of ICT "Energetic Materials: Characterisation and Performance of Advanced Systems", Karlsruhe, Germany, 26-29 June 2007
Pages
12 p. - Lecture V8
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