Rocket propellants ballistic properties

Similar to nitramine composite propellants and TAGN composite propellants, AN composite propellants produce halogen-free combustion products and thus represent smokeless propellants. However, their ballistic properties are inferior to those of other composite propellants the burning rate is too low and the pressure exponent is too high to permit fabrication of rocket propellant grains. In addition, the mechanical properties of AN composite propellants vary with temperature due to the phase transitions of AN particles. 

When HNF or ADN particles are mixed with a GAP copolymer containing aluminum particles, HNF-GAP and ADN-GAP composite propellants are formed, respectively. A higher theoretical specific impulse is obtained as compared to those of aluminized AP-HTPB composite propellants.However, the ballistic properties of ADN, HNIW, and HNF composite propellants, such as pressure exponent, temperature sensitivity, combustion instability, and mechanical properties, still need to be improved if they are to be used as rocket propellants. 

Hercopel a unique all-epoxide cure composite solid propellant with excellent mechanical and ballistic properties. Its outstanding performance in extended environments makes it well suited for tactical missiles Double-Base Solid Propellants a wide variety of physical and ballistic properties which can be tailored to meet specific performance requirements. Their high specific impulse and excellent reproducibility are two of the many reasons Hercules double-base propellants are found in many of our rocket motors and gas generators used for both military and space applications... 

Specific impulse (Isp) is the most important single ballistic property for rocket propellants and its value is of utmost significance for the determination of propel-... 

Hamilton and coworkers designed a rocket propellant formulation based on BAMO-AMMO Copolymer TPE and 80% total solids (AP and Al) and it was directly cast into a phenolic case and required no liner or insulation. The results of firing of a 18 kg test motor exhibited completely acceptable ballistic properties. The authors claimed it to be the 1st demonstration of a high energy TPE motor firing [158]. Prior to this, Wardle and his team reported BAMO-AMMO copolymer and CL-20-based potentially attractive high energy ETPE gun propellants. 

In a study of ballistic properties of a three-modal composite rocket propellant, the effect of coarse, medium and fine fractions of ammonium perchlorate on burning rate at 70 bar and 25 °C has been mathematically modeled. Limitations were imposed on the ratios of all three granulations of ammonium perchlorate xrfine fraction AP-7 pm=0.3-0.7 x2-coarse fraction AP-400 pm=0.0-0.40 x3-medium fraction AP-200 pm=0.30-0.70. 

A researcher s objective is to the establish optimal composition of a composite rocket propellant by ballistic properties such as burning rate and specific impulse. To achieve this, an extreme vertices design of experiment has been set up for these three components of the composition ... 

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