Browse > Article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3795/KSME-A.2013.37.11.1355

Effect of Temperature and Thickness on Fracture Toughness of Solid Propellant  

Seo, Bo Hwi (Dept. of Mechanical Design Engineering, Chungnam Nat'l Univ.)
Kim, Jae Hoon (Dept. of Mechanical Design Engineering, Chungnam Nat'l Univ.)
Publication Information
Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A / v.37, no.11, 2013 , pp. 1355-1360 More about this Journal
Abstract
A cracked solid propellant would have failure or fracture of rocket because of excessive combustion according to increase of burning area, therefore it is important to evaluate the fracture toughness of solid propellant. A procedure is used to investigate the material under a range of test temperatures between -60 and $60^{\circ}C$, three kind of specimen thickness, 4, 12.5 and 24.5 mm to determine the effect of two parameters on the fracture toughness. A center cracked tension (CCT) specimen is used in these tests, which were conducted using INSTRON 5567 testing machine and environmental chamber to evaluate the fracture toughness. The experimental results show that the fracture toughness tends to decreases with an increase in the temperature, and the effect of thickness indicates that the fracture toughness is highest at 12.5 mm under various temperatures except $-60^{\circ}C$. It is found that the fracture toughness of solid propellant is changed due to glass transition behavior around $-60^{\circ}C$.
Keywords
Solid Propellant; Fracture Toughness; Viscoelasticity; Stress Relaxation;
Citations & Related Records
연도 인용수 순위
  • Reference
1 Tussiwand, G. S., Saouma, V. E., Terzenbach, R. and De Luca, R. E., 2009, "Fracture Mechanics of Composite Solid Rocket Propellant Grains: Material Testing," Journal of Propulsion and Power, Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 60-73   DOI   ScienceOn
2 Anderson, T. L., 2005, Fracture Mechanics: Fundamentals and Applications, 3rd edition, CRC Press
3 ASTM, 2009, "Standard Test Method for Linear- Elastic Plane-strain Fracture Toughness KIC of Metallic Materials," Annual Book of ASTM Standards, ASTM E399, pp. 1-33
4 Bencher, C. D., Dauskardt, R. H. and Ritchie, R. O., 1995, "Microstructural Damage and Fracture Processes in a Composite Solid Rocket Propellant" Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, Vol. 32, No 2, pp. 328-334   DOI   ScienceOn
5 Bohn, M. A. and Elsner, P. 1999 "Aging of the Binders GAP-N100 and HTPB-IPDI Investigated by Torsion-DMA" Propellants, Explosives, Pyrotechnics 24, 199-205   DOI
6 Liu, C. T. 1997, "Crack Growth Behavior in a Solid Propellant" Engineering Fracture Mechanics, Vol. 56, No 1, pp. 126-135
7 Rao, S., Krishna, Y and Rao, B. N., 2005, "Fracture Toughness of Nitramine and Composite Solid Propellants," Material Science and Engineering A, Vol. 403, Issues 1-2, pp. 125-133   DOI   ScienceOn