Fundamental Studies Relating to the Mechanical Behavior of Solid Propellants, Rocket Grains and Rocket Motors
- Creators
- Blatz, P. J.
- Ko, W. L.
- Zak, A. R.
Abstract
The former reports provided considerable information about foam and continuum rubbers under three types of tensile loading (i.e. uniaxial, strip-biaxial and homogeneous-biaxial tension). Since continuum rubbers are almost incompressible it is extremely difficult to determine the strain energy function beyond the linear term. On the other hand the highly dilatable foam rubber enables one to determine the functional form of the strain energy valid up to higher order terms. Special attention is being paid to foam rubber, since it represents .the limiting case of completely dewetted propellant. The present report will (i) furnish the method of determination of strain energy function and the associated constitutive stress-strain law for large deformations out to fracture and (ii) present the triaxial tensile test data needed to double check item (i).
Additional Information
GALCIT 118 A - Progress Report No. 3 Aerojet Contract S-4200061-OP November 28, 1961 - February 28, 1962. This program is being supported by the Aerojet-General Corporation, Sacramento Division, under technical cognizance of Dr. F. J. Climent to provide technical support to the Polaris Project.Attached Files
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- Eprint ID
- 62588
- Resolver ID
- CaltechAUTHORS:20151203-152918001
- S-4200061-OP
- Aerojet-General Corporation
- Created
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2015-12-04Created from EPrint's datestamp field
- Updated
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2021-11-23Created from EPrint's last_modified field
- Caltech groups
- Graduate Aeronautical Laboratories (Solid Mechanics), GALCIT
- Other Numbering System Name
- GALCIT Report SM
- Other Numbering System Identifier
- 62-14