摘要:
Pulsed detonation engines (PDEs), or various components thereof, such as the detonation chamber and/or nozzle, can be economically constructed from materials having low thermal stability, such as plastics, composites, and light metals. During operation, the intermittent injection and detonation of reactants produces a motive force (e.g., thrust) over relatively short intervals useful in orbit control and the like. The relatively short intervals of operation prevent temperatures of the PDE components from reaching temperatures that would result in their dimensional failure.
摘要:
A thrust chamber assembly for liquid fueled rocket engines and the method of making it wherein a two-piece mandrel having the configuration of an assembly having a combustion chamber portion connected to a nozzle portion through a throat portion is wrapped with a silica tape saturated with a phenolic resin, the tape extending along the mandrel and covering the combustion chamber portion of the mandrel to the throat portion. The width of the tape is positioned at an angle of 30 to 50° to the axis of the mandrel such that one edge of the tape contacts the mandrel while the other edge is spaced from the mandrel. The phenolic in the tape is cured and the end of the wrap is machined to provide a frustoconical surface extending at an angle of 15 to 30° with respect to the axis of the mandrel for starting a second wrap on the mandrel to cover the throat portion. The remainder of the mandrel is wrapped with a third silica tape having its width positioned at a angle of 5 to 20° from the axis of the mandrel. The resin in the third tape is cured and the assembly is machined to provide a smooth outer surface. The entire assembly is then wrapped with a tow of graphite fibers wetted with an epoxy resin and, after the epoxy resin is cured, the graphite is machined to final dimensions.
摘要:
A stiffened composite is provided exhibiting multi-directional reinforcement with continuous long fibers. The composite has a substrate and serpentine stiffeners adhered thereto. The stiffeners merge toward, join with and diverge from adjacent stiffeners to provide a stiffener matrix on the substrate. The serpentine stiffener permit the matrix to exhibit multi-directional reinforcement with the continuous long fibers within the serpentine ribs. The composite structures are useful as aircraft bypass ducts, and as other composite products.
摘要:
A combustor liner includes an inner layer for facing combustion gases, and an opposite outer layer for facing a cooling fluid. The outer layer has a greater coefficient of thermal conductivity than the inner layer for reducing temperature gradients in the liner. In a preferred embodiment, the outer layer significantly reduces temperature gradients in the liner which are caused by the varying cooling ability of impingement cooling air jets for more uniformly cooling the combustor liner and reducing the maximum temperature thereof.
摘要:
The present invention relates to a heat treated, gamma prime precipitation strengthened nickel base alloy having an improved resistance to hydrogen embrittlement, particularly crack propagation. The alloy has a microstructure which is essentially free of script carbides, gamma--gamma prime eutectic islands and porosity. The microstructure further includes a plurality of regularly occurring large barrier gamma prime precipitates and a continuous field of fine cuboidal gamma prime precipitates surrounding the large barrier gamma prime precipitates.
摘要:
A cast article having a reinforced structural composite core is disclosed. The cast article includes a structural element which is embedded in the otherwise cast metal article. The structural element is comprised of a metal matrix composite structural core. It includes a plurality of reinforcing fibers within a metal matrix. The fibers are generally a non-metallic material such as a ceramic which degrade at a temperature below the melting temperature of the cast metal comprising the article. The metal matrix composite structural core is encased with a sheath. The sheath, attached to and completely surrounding the core, is made of the same metal as the cast metal article. In a preferred embodiment, the article is a titanium alloy strut for a gas turbine engine.
摘要:
Combustion chamber for rocket motor of the type comprising two domes, interconnected by a cylindrical shell, each of said domes and the intermediate shell being produced from a filamentary composite material, in which each dome comprises a slightly conical skirt of which the external face is joined over at least part of its length to the inner face of the shell, via a split cylindro-conical connection ring and at least opposite the conical skirt of the dome, one conical face having the same conicity as the conical skirt, the assembling of the three elements to be connected, i.e. dome, shell and ring, being achieved by adhesive bonding.
摘要:
A solid fuel rocket engine comprises a casing which defines a combustion chamber with a solid propellant charge in the combustion chamber and an insulating layer of a water containing alkali silicate and fibers disposed between the casing and the charge. The layer is a type which will froth at a predetermined temperature which occurs during burn off of the propellant charge so that it increases in its thickness dimension in the area of the hot gases which develop and provides an adequate insulation. A method of producing the layer comprises heating the alkali silicate layer to a temperature in which it becomes plastic and sheathing the propellant charge with the plastic layer. Thereafter the sheath charge is inserted into the combustion chamber casing leaving an annular gap between this layer and combustion chamber casing. Thereafter heat is applied to the vicinity of the chamber to cause the layer to froth and expand to close the annular gap. It is advantageous to include a lining of a plastic alkali layer in addition to the layer which sheaths the propellant charge between it and the casing. In addition, it is sometimes advantageous to add a plastic foam material in the gap between the sheath, the cover charge and the casing.
摘要:
A gas generator outlet manufactured of different metals, each possessing ferent thermal capability, welded together with a tapered internal insulation system. The generator outlet is designed to contain a high-pressure gas having a flame temperature of 3000.degree. F. The external surface of the gas generator outlet remains at or below 600.degree. F. while the outlet interfaces with a metal manifold having a temperature of approximately 3000.degree. F.
摘要:
An improved rocket nozzle system having a closure insulator located adjacent the combustion chamber of a rocket engine. The closure insulator has formed as an integral part thereof a plurality of nozzles. Each of the nozzles has incorporated therein a throat insert of pyrolized graphite cloth laminate and a consumable washer. The entire closure insulator assembly including nozzles is transfer molded as one piece into a steel housing. The housing is mounted on the combustion chamber thereby providing an effective nozzle system which is reliably operable under high temperature operation.