Preliminary Solid Rocket Motor Design Techniques

Abstract

General techniques to calculate solid rocket motor performance characteristics to determine if certain designs are feasible or to obtain more realistic preliminary design data are described in this report. There are many designs that can be used to produce specified motor performance characteristics and the possibility of using the 'cookbook' approach to achieve 'the' correct design is a non-existent distant dream. Solid rocket motor design requires repetitive estimates and calculations where rough approximations are made and by repeated estimates and calculations, a refined motor is achieved that delivers the required performance. By this iterative process, an acceptable motor design is achievable. This report can then serve as a practical primer for solid propellant rocket motor design. It may not solve all one's design problems but will help in many small ways.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1975
Accession Number
ADA063474

Entities

People

  • H. Platzek

Organizations

  • Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Ablative Materials
  • Booster Rocket Engines
  • Burning Rate
  • Combustion
  • Combustion Products
  • Combustors
  • Computer Programs
  • Heat Transfer
  • Materials Laboratories
  • Materials Processing
  • Physical Properties
  • Plastics
  • Propellant Grains
  • Propellants
  • Reinforced Plastics
  • Rocket Engines
  • Solid Propellants

Readers

  • Rocket Propulsion.
  • Systems Analysis and Design