Effect of coating of ammonium perchlorate with fluorocarbon on ballistic and sensitivity properties of AP/A1/HTPB propellant

Propellants, Explosives, Pyrotechnics

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 526-531

  Nandagopal, S ^a   Mehilal, M ^a   Tapaswi, M A ^a   Jawalkar, S N ^a   Radhakrishnan, K K ^a   Bhattacharya, B ^a  

^a HIGH ENERGY MATERIALS RESEARCH LABORATORY   (India)

Author keywords

AP; DOA; Fluorocarbon coating; HTPB; TDI

Indexed keywords

ALUMINIUM POWDER; AMMONIUM PERCHLORATES; BURN RATES; COMPOSITE PROPELLANT; FLUOROCARBON COATINGS; FLUOROCARBON POLYMERS; HEXAFLUOROPROPYLENE; HYDROXYL TERMINATED POLYBUTADIENES; IMPACT SENSITIVITIES; PERCENTAGE ELONGATION; PRECIPITATION TECHNIQUES; SENSITIVITY PROPERTIES; SENSITIVITY VALUES; SOLID LOADING; SOLVENT METHOD; THERMAL STABILITY; VINYLIDENE FLUORIDE; VISCO-ELASTIC;

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; BALLISTICS; COMPOSITE PROPELLANTS; DIRECTION OF ARRIVAL; HTPB PROPELLANTS; INTERCHANGES; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; POLYBUTADIENES; PROPELLANTS; RADIO DIRECTION FINDING SYSTEMS; SPACECRAFT PROPULSION; TENSILE STRENGTH; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY; VISCOSITY;

PLASTIC COATINGS;

EID: 73349092727     PISSN: 07213115     EISSN: 15214087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prep.200800032     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. C. Boyars, K. Klager, Propellents, Manufacturing, Hazards and Testing, American Chemical Society, Washington D.C, 1969, p. 88.
2. th JANNAF Combustion Meeting. Maryland-USA, October 4-7, 366, 1982.
3. C. E. Haff Jr, Extruded Composite Propellant Technology Development, J. Spacecraft 1984, 1, 587.
4. R. Reed Jr, R. P. Cornia, Extinguishable Propellant Composition, US Patent 4,023,995, 1977, Thiokol Corporation (Newtown, PA).
5. R. Reed Jr, Improved Aft Grain Propellants for Dual Chamber Controllable Motors, ICRPG/AIAA 2nd Propulsion Conference, Anaheim, USA, June 6-8, 1967.
6. R. S. Breunner, R. L. Lou, Fluorocarbon Propellants for Controllable Motors, March 1971, AFRPL-TR-71-47.
7. K. S. Mulage, R. N. Patkar, A. B. Dange, V. D. Deuskar, S. M. Pundlik, S. D. Kakade, Manufacture of Extruded Composite Propellant Based on Fluorocarbon Polymer as Binder and its Evaluation, Fourth International Seminar on High Energy Materials. Pune-India, November 18-20, 2003.
8. T. Tachibana, I. Kimura, DC Arc Discharge Ignition and Combustion Control of Solid Propellants. J. Propulsion 1988, 4, 41.
9. a) E. C. Koch. Metal-Fluorocarbon-Pyrolants III. Development and Application of Magnesium/Teflon/Viton (MTV), Propellants, Explos., Pyrotech. 2002, 27, 262;
10. b) E. C. Koch. Metal-Fluorocarbon-Pyrolants IV: Thermochemical and Combustion Behavior of Magnesium Teflon®/Viton (MTV), Propellants, Explos., Pyrotech. 2002, 27, 340.
11. C. Hohmann, B. Tipton Jr, M. Dutton, B Lyndon, Propellant for the NASA Standard Initiator, 2000, 8, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas, NASA/TP-2000-210186.
12. L. H. Caveny, L. M. Pokrocos, G. R. Lelshain, High Pressure Burning Rates ofMultibase Propellants, 1977, 75, Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Sciences, Princeton University, New Jersey, AMS-1377.