Ammunition and explosives – Powder form – Having embedded reinforcing or burning control means
Patent
1984-01-11
1986-05-27
Nelson, Peter A.
Ammunition and explosives
Powder form
Having embedded reinforcing or burning control means
102290, 102291, 102292, 102349, C06D 506
Patent
active
045908605
ABSTRACT:
End burning gas generators for use either as propulsion systems or means for generating large volume of gases for various purposes such as the generation of the fuel for a ducted rocket engine, the rapid inflation of air bags for personal protection or recovery of submersed items or the expulsion of projectiles from subsurface launch tubes are currently widely utilized. End burning gas generator grains are ignited at one end of a generally cylindrical charge mounted within a combustion chamber which is fixed with a suitable exhaust means. For many of the applications described above, it is desirable that the gas generator burn in a uniform manner such that a constant volume of gas is generated per unit of time so that the chamber pressure and the mass flow rate of gas remain constant. It has been observed, however, that rather than regressing at a uniform rate, the propellant grain burns in a manner which produces a convex cone, the angle of which increases with time thereby causing the burning surface to increase with time and to result in a progressive pressure trace within the combustion chamber and a corresponding continually increasing mass flow rate through the nozzle. According to this invention, it has been found that an end burning propellant grain can be caused to produce a substantially uniform pressure trace throughout its burn time if the interface between the grain and its container has a length greater than the axial length of the grain. The relationship between the length of the interface and the length of the grain is selected to compensate for the increased burning rate which is observed to occur at the interface and which produces the coning effect. The increased interfacial length can be easily obtained by the use of the corrugated member between the propellant grain and the case, the length across the corrugations providing the increase over the axial length of the grain. For typical gas generator propellant compositions, it has been found that if the interface is between 1.4 and 1.6 times the axial length of the grain that a substantially uniform pressure trace can be obtained. The corrugated interface also acts to improve the bond strength between the grain and the case.
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Nelson Peter A.
Nessler C. G.
Stone Steven F.
United Technologies Corporation
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