AIR-BEARING SLIPPER FOR SUPERSONIC ROCKET-POWERED SLEDS.

Abstract

An air-bearing slipper was designed with the aid of one-dimensional isentropic compressible-flow functions and tested in June 1967 on a monorail rocket sled that reached a speed of 2,200 ft/sec. Pressure and acceleration data, although incomplete, showed that the slipper performance closely matched the predicted performance, that this type of slipper has a good load-carrying capacity over a wide range of operating speeds, and that it probably is very effective in reducing rail-induced sled vibration. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 19, 1968
Accession Number
AD0840864

Entities

People

  • Fay A. Hoban

Organizations

  • Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Bearings
  • Compressible Flow
  • Flow
  • Gas Bearings
  • Motion
  • Payload
  • Rocket Sleds
  • Sleds
  • Vibration

Readers

  • Fluid Dynamics.
  • Tribology (the study of the boundary interaction between sliding surfaces, lubrication, wear and friction).

Technology Areas

  • Hypersonics
  • Hypersonics - Hypersonic Flow