Fracture toughness of nitramine and composite solid propellants

Materials Science and Engineering: A

Volumn 403, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 125-133

  Rao, Subhananda ^a   Krishna, Y ^b   Rao, B Nageswara ^c  

^a HIGH ENERGY MATERIALS RESEARCH LABORATORY   (India)

^b Defence Research and Development Laboratory ^*  (India)

^c INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

Author keywords

Compact tension specimen; Failure assessment diagram; HTPB based propellant; Inherent flaw model; Nitramine propellant

Indexed keywords

CRACK INITIATION; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; GAGES; METALLIC MATRIX COMPOSITES; SOLID PROPELLANTS; TENSILE TESTING;

CRACK OPENING DISPLACEMENT (COD); FAILURE ASSESSMENT; METALLIC MATERIALS; NITRAMINES; SLURRY CAST;

AMINES;

FRACTURE TOUGHNESS;

EID: 23444433185     PISSN: 09215093     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.msea.2005.04.054     Document Type: Article

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