• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.11 no.6
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• pp.1-8
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• 2007

The objective of the present work is to characterize design parameters of solid propellant ignitor for composite, double base, and nitramine propellants using arc image furnace. Arc image furnace and fiber optics surface reflectometer were used to measure ignition delay time and reflected optical energy of several compositions of composite, double base and nitramine base rocket propellant at different pressure levels each other. The order of ignitability was double base > composite> nitramine propellants at initial pressure of over 75 psia. The highest ignition energy was needed to ignite nitramine propellant, however, the ignition delay time decreased abruptly as the pressure increased up to the range of $75{\sim}400$ psia. The absorbtion of radiation energy could be increased by the addition of small amount of opacifiers as carbon black, ZrC, WC and burning catalyst.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 1994.11a
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• pp.39-45
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• 1994

Combustion characteristics of the solid composite propellants were studied from burning rate, ignition and steady combustion processes, and structure of the extinguished surfaces. Optical Vacuum Strand Burner (OVSB) system was desisted and configured to study those. Burning rates of the propellants were measured by OVSB at low pressure range by developed ten method. video camera(30 frames/s) was used to take potographs of the phenomena of ignition and combustion of propellant within the test cell of the OVSB. Burning surfaces of the propellants that were extinguished by rapid depressurization method were analyzed with Scanning Electron Microscope. (SEM).

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 1996.05a
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• pp.131-137
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• 1996

HTPB/AP/Al이 주성분인 2종의 혼합형 추진제를 대상으로 4종의 금속선(Ag, Cu, Al, Ni-Cr)윰 각각 삽입하여 금속선의 직경(0.1~0.8mm)과 연소 압력에 따른 금속선에 인접한 고체 추진제의 연소 속도 증가비($r_w$/$r_sb$)와 압력 지수(n)의 변화를 고찰하였다. 금속선을 추진제에 삽입함으로써 추진제의 $r_w$/$r_sb$ 는 크게 중가하였고, 1000 psia의 압력에서의 최대 6.59배 증가하였다. 그러나 녹는 점이 비교적 낮은 Al 선이나 Ag선은 금속선 직경이 작아짐에 따라 한계 직경에서 $r_w$가 급격히 감소하는 최대값이 존재하였다. 자연 발화 온도와 금속선으로 전달되는 열원인 연소 기체 불꽃 온도로 구성된 무차원군을 Buckingham pi 정리에 의해 구해진 $r_w$/$r_sb$ 에 대한 기존의 무차원 실험식에 추가로 적용하여 계산해 본 결과, 자연 발화 온도는 고려하지 않고 금속선의 녹는 점과 연소 기체의 불꽃 온도를 무시한 Hsing 의 실험식에 의해 계산된 결과보다 표준 편차가 45%이상 줄어듬을 알 수 있었다.

• 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.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.44-50
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• 2019

HNIW is a high energy material and has four crystalline phases, it is known that the thermal properties of the material depend on the crystal phase. In this sturdy, the viscosity, mechanical and burning properties of a solid propellant with nitrate ester polyester(NEPE) system with respect to the crystal phases of HNIW. According to the crystal phase of HNIW, the mechanical properties of the cured propellant did not change considerably, however differences were observed in the burning properties. Considering both a high density and stable burning properties, the optimum crystal phase of HNIW can be identified as the main factor influencing to the NEPE system propellant.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.14-19
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• 2016

The viscosity and mechanical property of HTPB/AP composite solid propellant are profoundly affected by particle size of AP. In HTPB/AP propellant formulated by two mode of AP size such as $190{\mu}m$ and $7{\mu}m$, the propellant was found to be much less viscose at end of mix when coarse/fine AP ratio is ranged from 70/30 to 60/40 due to high solid packing fraction. It was shown that the toughness of tensile strength test for HTPB/AP propellant increased with the increase in coarse AP. Considering both lower viscosity and better tensile strength, the optimum ratio of AP coarse/fine was estimated to be 70/30.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.43 no.7
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• pp.593-600
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• 2015

In this study, a combined hybrid rocket system is newly introduced which has characteristics of both gas generators and afterburner type hybrid rockets. In particular, a combined gas generator utilizing solid fuel and liquid/gas oxidizer was designed as a primary combustor of the system. Combustion tests were carried out with various equivalence ratio affected by parameters such as fuel length, oxidizer flow rate, fuel port diameter and fuel type. In general, fuel-rich gas generator produces low combustion gas temperature to meet the temperature requirement and the target temperature was transiently set less than 1600 K. Since it was found that controlling parameters showed limited effects on the change of equivalence ratio, mixture of $O_2$ and $N_2$ as an oxidizer was additionally introduced. As a result, a combined gas generator successfully produced combustion gas temperature of less than 1600 K Future studies will carry out more combustion tests to attain fuel-rich combustion gas temperature less than 1200 K, which was a temperature requirement of a gas generator system in the previous studies.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.24 no.6
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• pp.101-107
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• 2020

In this paper, step-curing, which includes the change of curing temperature on the curing process, was applied to reduce curing day of HTPB/AP based propellant. This study targets the improvement of productivity of HTPB/AP based solid rocket motor. Comparison of mechanical properties of propellant resulted in the change of normal curing condition (60℃, 5 days) to step-curing condition (60℃, 1 day / 65℃, 3 days). Post-cure test was conducted to determine the impact on the shelf life of the solid rocket motor. The aging characteristics of propellants were analyzed by measuring mechanical properties and thermal expansion factor. To step-cured propellant, accelerated aging test was performed for 12 weeks, followed by tensile test. Sm(bar) and Em(%) were higher than 8 bar and 40% each, showing excellent mechanical properties.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.307-310
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• 2005

This Study was performed for the Insensitive Munition Technology Program contract between Roxel and ADD. Two Slow Coo-off(SCO) tests and One fast Cook-off(FCO) test have been made based on MIL-STD-2105C. SCO and FCO tests were made in order to evaluate the behaviour of the hybrid rocker motor with insensitive igniter and two types of propellants of which burning rates were 9.8 mm/s and 21.2 mm/s @ 7 MPa each other. The Reaction level of the two rocker motors to SCO test was classified as type IV and that of FCO test was classified as type V.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.12-17
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• 2020

The mechanical properties of the propellant with yellow iron oxide were slightly increased compared to the propellant with red iron oxide. The propellant with yellow iron oxide used two types of AP. As the ratio of small particles of AP increased, the burning rate increased. The propellant may be applied to the propellant under operating conditions of 17.5 mm/sec or less having a pressure index of 0.5. The burning rate downs in the mixer scale-up. The stress at maximum load of propellant decreased and the strain at maximum load increased in the mixer scale-up. The yellow iron oxide did not affect the adhesive force between the insulation/liner/propellant.