Composite solids

Solution Polymers. Acryflc solution polymers are usually characterized by their composition, solids content, viscosity, molecular weight, glass-transition temperature, and solvent. The compositions of acryflc polymers are most readily determined by physicochemical methods such as spectroscopy, pyrolytic gas—liquid chromatography, and refractive index measurements (97,158). The solids content of acryflc polymers is determined by dilution followed by solvent evaporation to constant weight. Viscosities are most conveniently determined with a Brookfield viscometer, molecular weight by intrinsic viscosity (158), and glass-transition temperature by calorimetry. 

Modern composite solid propellant is a mechanical mixture of the powder-like chemicals and a binding resin. The propellant used for the Space Shuttle solid rocket boosters (SRBs) is a typical example of such mixture ... 

The equivalent circuit of a section of this SEI is presented in Fig. 13(b). It was recently found [123, 124] that at temperatures lower than 90 °C, the grain-boundary resistance of composite polymer electrolytes and composite solid electrolytes based on Lil-A Ojis many times larger than their ionic resistance. At 30 °C / GB is several orders of magnitude larger than (the ionic resistance) and for 100 pm-thick CPE foils or Lil-A Oj pellets it reaches [125] 105-106Qcm2 (depending on CPE composition). 

Scanning Electron Microscopy in the Study of Solid Propellant Combustion. Part 111. The Surface Structure and Profile Characteristics of Burning Composite Solid Propellants , NavWeps-Cent r TP 5142-Part 3 (1971) 48) B.T. 

A Small but important daSS of fOi mUlatiOnS comprises the Composite Solid Rocket Propellants. Composites typically contain a major amount of an oxidizer such as AP or HMX, a metal powder such as Al, a binder which is one or another type of rubber (or double-base), and up to a dozen trace ingredients such as catalysts, stabilizers, etc. There are literally hundreds of formulations, all to a degree similar and the choice comes down to specific missions, economics, and special requirements Loading of End Items. The blends and formulations described above may be loaded into their hardware in the plant where they are made, or they may be shipped to another plant for Load/... 

R.P. Rastogi K. Kishore, Polymers as Fuel Binders in Composite Solid Propellants ,... 

W.C. Strahle J.C. Handley, Synergistic Effects and Deflagration Analysis In Composite Solid Propellant Combustion , Final Report, Contract N00014-75-C-0332... 

B. Brown, Explosive Hazards of Composite Solid Propellants , Report No IDA/HQ-67-6659, Contract DAHC15-67-C-0011, Arlington... 

Rastogi K.. Kishore, Polymers as Fuel Binders in Composite Solid Propellant s , JSciindRes 32 (6), 279-99 (1973) CA 80, 121565 (1974) 32) A. Reiche , Changes in Properties of Polyester Explosives , JahrestaglnstChemTreib-Ex-plosivstFraunhofer-Ges 1971, 423-60 (1972)... 

Hydrazinium diperchlorate (HP2) is one of the higher energetic oxidizers considered for use in composite solid propints with hydrocarbon binders. Its other advantages include high density, high burning rate, and moderate projected cost. Its shortcomings include relatively poor stability to vibrational and thermal shock... 

Price (Ref 39) compares the three principal quantitative models of ignition and concludes that there are serious deficiencies in the existing models, so much so that no one theory appears adequate to represent the complexity of ignition of composite solid proplnts. In the gas-phase model (Refs 22 36) the hot oxidizing environ-... 

D, W. Blair, CombustFlame 20 (1), 105—9 (1973) CA 78, 113515 (1973) A simple heat-transfer model is coupled with an Arrhenius-type pyrolysis law to study the effect of solid-state heat-transfer losses on burning rates of solid rocket-proplnt strands. Such heat-transfer losses materially affect the burning rates and also cause extinction phenomena similar to some that had been observed exptly. Strand diam and compn, adiabatic burning rate, and the heat-transfer film coeff at the strand surface are important variables. Results of theoretical analysis are applied to AP-based composite solid proplnts... 

N.S. Cohen et al, A1AA J 12 (2), 212-18 ( qia QQt 135471 (1974V The effects of inert polymer binder properties on composite solid proplnt burning rate are described. Surface pyrolysis data for many polymers over a wide range of conditions are used to derive kinetics constants from Arrhenius plots and heat of... 

H. Schubert, ChemZtg 97 (9), 486—92 (1973) CA 80,28964 (1974) A brief historical survey of solid rocket proplnts is followed by a description of solid propint motors and of the uses of the proplnts. The compn and the process technology of two fundamentally different types of proplnts, ie, homogeneous or double-base solid proplnts and heterogeneous or composite solid proplnts, are described. Their properties are reviewed... 

Fig. 4. Comparison of theory with experiment for Hot-wire ignition of composite solid propellants (A4).

The second major component of a composite solid propellant is the organic polymer material, which serves to bind the oxidizer and other... 

The toughest challenge and the greatest opportunity in chemical engineering for high-performance materials lie in the development of wholly new designs for composite solids. Such materials are typified by composites reinforced by three-dimensional networks and trass-works—microstractures that are multiply cormected and that interpenetrate the multiply cormected matrix in which they are embedded. In such materials, both reinforcement and matrix are continuous in three dimensions the composite is bicontinuous. Geometric prototypes of... 

Fig. 22 Dissolution fates of various griseofulvin and gri-seofulvin-succinic acid samples as determined by the oscillating bottle method. , griseofulvin, crystalline A, griseofulvin, micronized , eutectic mixture 0> physical mixture at eutectic composition , solid solution A, physical mixture at solid solution composition. The dashed line indicates the equilibrium solubility of griseofulvin in water. (From Ref. 41.).

Mai A, HaanappelVAC, UhlenbruckS, TietzF, and Stover D. Ferrite-based perovskites as cathode materials for anode-supported solid oxide fuel cells, Part I. Variation of composition. Solid State Ionics 2006 176 1341-1350. 

Nitric oxide has a very low ionization potential and could ionize at flame temperatures. For a normal composite solid propellant containing C—H—O—N—Cl—Al, many more products would have to be considered. In fact if one lists all the possible number of products for this system, the solution to the problem becomes more difficult, requiring the use of advanced computers and codes for exact results. However, knowledge of thermodynamic equilibrium constants and kinetics allows one to eliminate many possible product species. Although the computer codes listed in Appendix I essentially make it unnecessary to eliminate any product species, the following discussion gives one the opportunity to estimate which products can be important without running any computer code. 

Gindhar, H. L., and A. J. Arora. 1977. Ignition delay of composite solid propellants. Combustion Flame 28 109-11. 

Steinz, J. A., Stang, P. L., and Summer-field, M., The Burning Mechanism of Ammonium Perchlorate-Based Composite Solid Propellants, Aerospace and Mechanical Sciences Report No. 830, Princeton University, 1969. 

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