• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• v.59 no.2
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• pp.180-185
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• 2021

In accordance with the revision of the US-Korea missile guidelines, restrictions on the use of solid propellants for space launch vehicles have been completely lifted. The solid propellant can be used as a solid propellant rocket like the KSR-1 (Korea Sounding Rocket-1), and can also be used as a thrust augmentation booster for liquid fuel launch vehicles. It is known that solid propellants have a lower risk of explosion than liquid propellants. but if an accident such as an explosion at the Alcantara Launch Center in Brazil occurs, it can lead to a large-scale personal accident. In order to prevent such large-scale accidents, it is necessary to review and reflect the minimum safety distance during use, storage and combustion test of solid propellants from the planning phase of the project. In this paper, the minimum safety distance for safe use of the solid propellant is presented by dividing it into storage facilities and combustion tests.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.213-216
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• 2008

U. S. and NATO allies have recently increased their emphasis on reducing the hazards of tactical munitions that contain energetic materials and actively started many investigations on Insensitive munitions(IM) of missile propulsion. All subcomponents of rocket motor should be properly designed and understood to increase IM properties. Insensitive propellant, motor case, ignitor and mitigation devices are important components of IM technologies of rocket motors.

• Journal of the KSME
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• v.31 no.7
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• pp.652-656
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• 1991

일반적으로 로켓 추진기관이라고 하면 외부로부터의 산소 공급없이, 추진제라고 불리는 물질이 연소할 때 발생하는 고온 고압의 연소가스를 고속으로 노즐로 통과시켜 추력을 얻는기관을 말 한다. 연소는 산소와의 화합반응이 급격히 일어날 때 일어나는 현상이므로 외부로부터 산소공 급이 없다는 것은, 추진제 자체에서 산소공급이 가능하다는 것을 의미한다. 즉, 추진제는 그 자 체가 흔히 말하는 연료성분과 산소를 공급할 수 있는 산소화합물을 같이 묶어둔 물질이어야 한다. 그러나 지구를 둘러싸고 있는 대기에는 산소가 20%나 포함되어 있으며, 이 무궁무진한 산소를 이용하지 않는다는 것은 여러 면에서 손실임을 쉽게 알 수 있을 것이다. 그럼에도 불구 하고 이를 이용하지 못하고 있었음은 그 나름대로의 어려움이 있었기 때문일 것이다. 그러나 인간의 노력과 연구로 불가능했던 많은 사실도 가능하게 된 것이 헤아릴 수 없이 많아지고 있음 또한 주지의 사실이다. 로켓 추진기관 분야에서도 순수 연료 성분만을 로켓에 탑재하고 산소는 흡입되는 대기중의 것을 이용하자는 것이 새로운 연구분야로 각광을 얻고 있으며, 실제로 이러한 방법이 실용화되고 있다. 이와 같이 흡입공기를 산소원으로 하는 추진기관을 총칭 램제트 추진 기관이라고 한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2002.10a
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• pp.33-33
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• 2002

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.39 no.6
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• pp.631-638
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• 2015

In this study, semiquantitative failure mode, effects, and criticality analysis (FMECA) for the reliability analysis of a solid rocket propulsion system is performed. The semiquantitative FMECA is composed of failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) and criticality analysis (CA). To perform FMECA, the structure of the solid rocket propulsion system is divided into 43 parts down to the component level, and FMEA is conducted at the design stage considering 137 potential failure modes. CA is then conducted for each failure mode, during which the criticality number is estimated using the failure rate databases. The results demonstrate the relationship between potential failure modes, causes, and effects, and their risk priorities are evaluated qualitatively. Additionally, several failure modes with higher criticality and severity values are selected for high-priority improvement.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.17 no.5
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• pp.27-36
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• 2013

Linear stability analysis for combustion instability within a cylindrical port of solid rocket motor has been conducted. The analysis of acoustic energy has been performed by a commercial COMSOL code to obtain the mode function associated to each acoustic mode prior to the calculation of stability alpha. An instability diagnosis based on the linear stability analysis of Culick is performed where special interests have been focused on 5 stability factors(alpha) such as pressure coupling, nozzle damping, particle damping and additionally, flow turning effect and viscous damping to take into account the flow and viscosity effect near the fuel surface. The instability decay characteristics depending on the particle size is also analyzed.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.175-178
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• 2008

A Numerical Simulation which uses preconditioning algorithm to examine unsteady combustion processes for the AP/HTPB propellant with a converging-diverging nozzle has been compared with experimental data for solid rocket motor. To analysis reacting flow of solid rocket motor, unsteady pressure, temperature contour was simulated by grid moving of propellant.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 1996.11a
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• pp.201-206
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• 1996

추진제 연소 기체의 연기도(degree of smoke)의 정량적 측정을 위하여 설계, 제작된 Smoke Chamber를 이용하여, 고체 추진제의 연소 기체에 대한 연기도의 측정 기법을 확립하였으며, 몇가지 유연성 및 무연성 혼합형 고체 추진제 조성들과 복기형 추진제의 연소 기체에 대하여 온·습도 조건의 변화에 따라 연기도를 측정하여 결과를 종합, 분석하였다. 그 결과, Smoke Chamber장비를 이용한 측정을 통하여 추진제 연소 기체중의 연기 생성도를 정량화 함으로써, 기후 조건과 추진제 조성에 따른 연기도의 차이를 구분할 수 있었으며, 일차 연기(primary smoke)와 이차연기(secondary smoke)의 생성 조건 및 이들의 분리 측정이 가능하다는 결론을 얻었다. 측정 파장 영역에 대한 확장을 통하여 측정 범위룰 보완한다면, Smoke Chamber System은 향후 고체 추진제의 연소 기체의 연기 특성의 파악 및 로켓 모터 plume 연구의 기초 자료 획득에 유용하게 이용될 수 있다고 판단된다.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.24 no.6
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• pp.45-52
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• 2020

In this paper, a subminiature solid rocket motor(SSRM) was designed to develop a miniature smart-bullet and the designed propellant grain was made of thermoplastic propellant for production convenience of inner shape. The internal ballistics analysis and ground test were performed to investigate the performance of SSRM. And a numerical simulation was carried out to obtain basic data on the design of safety distance between the nozzle outlet and a gunner, the temperature distribution of exhaust gas was analyzed by comparing a numerical simulation and the results of IR camera.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.20-27
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• 2016

The prediction of combustion instability is important to avoid an obvious threat to the structural safety and the motor performance because it affects the apparent response function of the propellant, the burning rate, and a mean flow Mach number at the local surface. The combustion instability occurs in case acoustic waves were coupled with the combustion/flow dynamic frequency. In this paper, an acoustic instability model is derived from the nonlinear wave equation for analysing acoustic dynamics in solid rocket motors. The chamber pressure and burning rate effects on combustion instability have been investigated.