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Small Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (SICBM) Rocket Motor Sympathetic Detonation Study
| العنوان: | Small Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (SICBM) Rocket Motor Sympathetic Detonation Study |
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| المؤلفون: | AIR FORCE RESEARCH LAB EDWARDS AFB CA SPACE AND MISSILE PROPULSION DIV, Schwartz, Daniel F., Merill, Claude E. |
| المصدر: | DTIC AND NTIS |
| بيانات النشر: | 2004-03-26 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Electronic Resource |
| مستخلص: | The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Propulsion Directorate at Edwards Air Force Base California utilized two surplus Small Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (SICBM) rocket motors in a sympathetic detonation test with a spacing of 15 feet (4.6 meters) between them (typical max spacing in storage bunkers and transport trailers) to gain technical value from assets deemed undesirable for test firing. The Stage 1 SICBM motor containing 19,200 lbs (8709 kg) of detonable Hazard Division (MD) 1.1 propellant was used as the donor motor and the Stage 3 SICBM motor containing 3040 lbs (1379 kg) of the same propellant formulation was used as the acceptor motor in the test. It was assumed that the propellant and rocket motor community would be interested in observing how large the differential can be between detonation by shock-to-detonation transition (SDT) initiation values and by lesser shocks that might occur with operational scenarios of nearby detonation shocks or flight fallbacks. In addition, observation of fragment throw/impact data from modern, carbon composite, case rocket motors could help determine fragment hazards from such events. Such data might provide the modeling and simulation community information that could be coupled to rocket motor hazard codes for predicting rocket motor responses to shock and fragment stimuli. This paper outlines the sympathetic detonation test conducted at AFRL, to observe interactions between a detonating Stage 1 Small ICBM rocket motor and a nearby Stage 3 Small ICBM rocket motor. Presented at the 31st Department of Defense Explosives Safety Seminar held in San Antonio, TX on 24-26 Aug 2004. |
| مصطلحات الفهرس: | Explosions, Solid Propellant Rocket Engines, Solid Rocket Propellants, Guided Missiles, HAZARDS, ROCKET ENGINES, SYMPATHETIC DETONATIONS, SOLID ROCKET PROPELLANTS, INTERCONTINENTAL BALLISTIC MISSILES, TEST AND EVALUATION, SCENARIOS, COMPOSITE STRUCTURES, IMPACT SHOCK, ROCKET ENGINE CASES, THIRD STAGE ENGINES, PROPELLANT TANKS, TANK FRAGMENTS, HYDROXY TERMINATED POLYBUTADIENE., SICBM(SMALL INTERCONTINENTAL BALLISTIC MISSILES), SDT(SHOCK TO DETONATION TRANSITION), FIRST STAGE ENGINES, WUAFRL48470122, Text |
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| الاتاحة: | Open access content. Open access content APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE |
| ملاحظة: | text/html English |
| Other Numbers: | DTICE ADA423229 834265045 |
| المصدر المساهم: | From OAIster®, provided by the OCLC Cooperative. |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsoai.ocn834265045 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OAIster |
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