• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.31 no.5
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• pp.93-99
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• 2003

The determination of thrust is essential in design and evaluation of a hypersonic airbreathing propulsion device. Conventional methods to determine the thrust is using thrust stand or force measurement system. However, these conventional methos are not applicable to the case where thrusts stands are impractical, such as free jet testing of engines, and model combustor. For this reason, the thrust determination method from measured pitot pressure is considered and validated. Validation of thrust determination from pitot pressures can be achieved by comparing the actual thrust from thrust stand. For validation purpose, a small-scale supersonic wind tunnel is installed on the thrust stand. Thrusts are measured while pressures are measured simulaneously. Then, the thrust from pitot pressure measurements are compared with the measured thrust and theoretical thrusts.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2002.04a
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• pp.73-76
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• 2002

본 연구에서는 기존의 추력측정 방법보다 간단한 추력측정 방법으로서 피토 압력을 이용한 방법을 제안하였고, 이의 검증을 위해 소형 추력측정기를 제작하였다. 추력측정기를 이용하여 모델로켓 모터 및 초음속 풍동의 추력측정을 통하여 그 가능성을 확인하였고 본 연구의 목표인 피토압력과 추력측정기를 이용한 측정 추력의 비교연구가 계획되어 있다.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.9-15
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• 2004

The measured thrust could be distorted because of the transient response of thrust stand during combustion of rocket motor. As a result of the distorted thrust, it is not easy for us to know the values of thrust peak and thrust duration time. Therefore, it is of great importance to compute the true thrust from the measured thrust. In this study the method to eliminate the transient response from the measured thrust using only the measured thrust was Proposed, and also experimental data were used to approve the proposed method. The result showed that the proposed method would be available to compute the true thrust.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.9-19
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• 2009

Accurate thrust measurement is very important when developing an engine of propulsion system. Especially for a low thrust liquid rocket engine(LRE), accuracy of thrust is seriously affected by thrust measurement errors and thurst losses which are caused by propellant supply system. In this study, a new thrust measurement system is developed for accurate thrust measurement of a low thurst LRE by minimizing these effects. Its thrust measurement range is 150~1500N and the maximum error is below 10N. Also, a reliability appraisal technique is investigated to improve reliability and accuracy of the thrust measurement system.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.55-59
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• 2008

It is very difficult to measure an accurate thrust for the performance test of liquid rocket engine. Liquid rocket engine is attached to the propellant feed system, control valve and many other safety systems. Without considering these effects, thrust data measured from the firing test is not reliable and meaningless. In this research, the modified thrust measurement system, which includes both all these side effects is developed for the verification of low thrust liquid rocket engine performance. In addition, reliability appraisal technique is studied to secure the reliability of thrust measurement system.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2017.05a
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• pp.572-582
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• 2017

It is definitely important to measure thrust during ground test when developing air-breathing engine, and in case of air-breathing engine, gross thrust should be calculated considering not only the measured thrust but also the force induced by the air flow of engine intake. Also, side thrust like yaw and pitch should be measured and analyzed using multi-component thrust measurement system. Engine performance was accurately evaluated by calculating the gross thrust of air breathing engine precisely which is analyzed from below serial procedure: labyrinth seal isolation, 1-axis gross thrust calculation, develop multi-component thrust measurement system, and side thrust analysis.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2017.05a
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• pp.1188-1191
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• 2017

Thrust is one of the crucial performance parameter of a combustion chamber in the combustion chamber development test. So it is very important to measure an accurate thrust. Thrust calibration test was performed to identify the system characteristics, resistance and linearity of a vertical thrust measurement system(TMS) for accurate thrust measurement. It has been found 6.9% ~ 8.6% errors between the measured thrust by TMS calibration equations and theoretical thrust. It has been confirmed that the TMS calibration is necessary to be performed with the propellant lines connected to the combustion chamber for accurate thrust measurement.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.16-23
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• 2001

For liquid rocket engine test, one of most important design parameters to be measured is thrust. However, not like solid rocket motor, a liquid rocket engine is attached to the propellant feed system, control valve and many other safety systems. Without considering these effects, thrust data measured from firing test is not reliable and sometimes almost meaningless. In this research, new thrust measurement system, which includes all these side effects, was designed and fabricated.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.67-70
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• 2006

In this study micro-thrust measurement method in high vacuum chamber is introduced. This is important for the development of micro-thruster for micro-satellite applications. At Chungnam national University, high-vacuum experimental facility has been constructed to simulate space environment. And strain gauge besed micro-thrust measurement in vacuum chamber has been studied and discussed.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.36 no.8
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• pp.780-789
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• 2008

A new method for measuring the performance of a micro-thruster is suggested in this paper. A few thrust stands have been developed for measuring micro-level thrusts. This paper describes a different measurement method that can minimize the calibration involved in the measurements, while providing the capability of directly measuring the produced minimum impulse bit directly. The underlying theory and the theoretical background for the measurement mechanism are described here. The theory and method is verified using a computer simulation, and the result is given in this paper. The theory has also been tested on an actual hardware. Although this hardware is a prototype, developed for proof-of-concept analysis, satisfactory results have been obtained.