ENGINEERING MANUAL FOR PROPELLANT ACTUATED DEVICES

Abstract

The major purpose of this manual is to provide technical personnel of industries involved in design and provisions for emergency escape from extra- terrestrial vehicles with a convenient reference of basic design and performance characteristics of propellant actuated devices. The major consideration in the design, development and production of the devices described in this manual was to attain an optimum reliability design goal. Fundamental to the theory of reliability is the relationship between total and component reliabilities. On this basis, total reliability can be no greater than the least reliable component. To attain this goal, the devices listed in this manual undergo stringent quality control tests and analysis for the propellant, pyrotechnic and hardware components, and the complete loaded and assembled device is subjected to equally severe testing.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1965
Accession Number
AD0481006

Entities

Organizations

  • Frankford Arsenal

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Aircraft Canopies
  • Aircrafts
  • Ball Bearings
  • Ejection Seats
  • Escape Systems
  • Explosives
  • Firing Pins
  • Fuselages
  • Gunpowder
  • Propellant Actuated Devices
  • Propellant Grains
  • Propellants
  • Rocket Propellant Grains
  • Rocket Propellants
  • Shear Pins
  • Training

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Electrical Engineering
  • Software Engineering
  • Systems Analysis and Design