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- From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
- Subject: Re: Other reloadables besides Aerotech? (Re: Info. about solid rocket-
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- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 15:25:39 GMT
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- In article <19921221181458.Roger.Wilfong@umich.edu> Roger.Wilfong@umich.edu (Roger Wilfong) writes:
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- >1) In the Aerotech RMS motors, the part of the case that gets the hottest
- > is around the delay element. You don't notice it on the 24mm and 29mm
- > motors because this portion of the motor is smaller in diameter. On the
- > 18mm, this portion is just the same diameter as the rest of the motor. On
- > the 18mm motor, this portion gets hot enough to char a motor tube while
- > the rest of the motor tube is unaffected.
-
- This brings up another thing I've been wondering about.
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- How can one size of casing take both F and G reloads? The total impulse
- of one is twice as much as the other, so there must be twice as much pro-
- pellant in one grain than the other. Either they use two different pro-
- pellants with different "impulse densities" (impulse/volume) or they must
- have something take up the excess space. Is it a solid filler or is it
- air?
-
- Same thing for delays. In motors with delays, how do you put in different
- delay elemts since they'd be different lengths? I take it that any empty
- space in a motor is bad.
-
- >2) The 32mm Phoenix motor uses end burn grains in the F and G range. The
- > slot refered to above is about 3/16-1/4" wide (and deep) and serves two
- > functions; first, it provides a place to put the ignitor, and second it
- > provides the starting spike in the thrust curve that gets the plane
- > moving.
-
- I seem to recall that the slot went the whole length of the grain. I'll
- have to have another look.
-
- >3) Since the Phoenix motor is only F and G rated, it is probably dealing
- > with lower pressures than a high power motor. A reload with a time/thrust
- > profile of an I-65 might very well heat the case to an unacceptable
- > temperature. Although I suspect not - if pheonolic can stand up to the
- > pressure and temperature, the aluminum casing should also. What may be
- > required is a thicker cardboard insulator tube.
-
- Could be. Yet its an anomaly if reloadables are supposed to all be fast
- burners. It doesn't have a delay so that would help the heat situation.
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