DESIGN PRINCIPLES OF ADVANCED SOLID-PROPELLANTS

A computer-aided approach for primary optimization of propellant formu lations is described. The computer code includes a database containing information of approximately 1000 propellant components and 1600 comb ustion products. Possible ways of designing the advanced components of composite solid propellants (binders, plasticizers, curative agents, and oxidizers) are considered. The physicomechanical and physicochemic al behavior (and related phenomena) of material with a high content of disperse components, determined by theology and mechanical and kineti c parameters, is analyzed in detail.