Combustion behavior of TAL-1308 composite solid propellant for airbag applications

35th Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages

  Risha, Grant A ^a   Ulas, Abdullah ^a   Kuo, Kenneth K ^a   Koch, Donald E ^a   Ludwig, Christopher P ^b   Glick, Robert ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Talley Defense Systems   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ENERGY; CHEMICAL ACTIVATION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COMBUSTION; PROPELLANTS; PROPULSION; SILICON COMPOUNDS; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SOLID PROPELLANTS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

COMBUSTION CHARACTERISTICS; COMPOSITE SOLID PROPELLANT; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; PRESSURE AND TEMPERATURE; PRESSURE DEPENDENCIES; STEADY STATE BURNING RATE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; X-RAY DIFFRACTION METHOD;

COMPOSITE PROPELLANTS;

EID: 84963813189     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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