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Motor Cases
WITH WEIGHTED PROPERTY INDEX METHOD
Muhammad Arif Saadilah | Design and Material Selection | March, 2015
ROCKET MOTOR
A Rocket motor, or rocket engine, or maybe some of the article will use term as a Jet
Engine uses for storing fuel inside and mass for forming its high speed propulsive jet. A
rocket motor is one of the most important thing in missiles, and Spaceship.
A Rocket motor just use the Newtons third law to make it fly away from the ground. As
we know rocket always can be flew away because of a boost from some burned
propellant. The generated force (pressure) imparts a momentum to the combution
products. This boost will make a momentum in the opposite direction which also
imparted to vehicle.
A boost from inside the rocket motor wwill also produce some side effect such as high
temperature, high pressure gases and some other chemical reaction which happened when
burning the solid propellant as the fuel. This all happened in a chambers called cases.
Below is the picture of the rocket motor which also mention the part:
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Fracture toughness: This factor determines to what strength limit material can be
reasonably utilized in the presence of small flaws, which are often unavoidable
and undetectable.[5]
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Search
Region
Cost: Overall cost is the most important criterion in selecting a material. Cost is a
more usefull parameter when it can be related to a critical material property that
controls the performance of the design.[5]
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Pairwise Comparison
Positive
Decision Number
Property
1
Decisions
8
10
Strength
to weight
ratio
Fracture
toughness 0
Specific
stiffness
Thermal
expansion
Cost
Property
Positive
Weighting
Decision
Factors
Strength
to weight
ratio
0.4
0.1
0.1
expansion
0.1
Cost
0.3
Total
10
Fracture
toughness
Specific
stiffness
Thermal
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Candidate Material
With all the data shown before, we can choose some of the type of material as on the
Material Chart. Below are how we can choose some material type by the Material Chart:
1. Specific Strength
2. Fracture Toughness
3. Thermal Expansion
Material
304 SS
Maraging
Steel
15CDV6
D6AC
Ti Alloy
Al Alloy
HSLA Steels
Table 5. Candidate Material with the properties. [5]
Corrosion Fabricability
Avaibility
304 SS
Maraging Steel
15CDV6
D6AC
Ti Alloy
Al Alloy
HSLA Steels
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Scaled Property
Material
Specific
Fracture
Specific
Thermal
Expansion
Cost
WPI
WPI
Without
with
Cost
Cost
83
32
61
53
50
47.8
62.8
Steel
89
80
74.25
99
10
60.925
63.925
15CDV6
66.5
100
81
100
15
54.7
59.2
D6AC
91.34
70
80
98
15
61.336
65.836
Ti Alloy
100
335
79
93
9.3
90.7
93.49
Al Alloy
78.8
17
100
42
50
47.42
62.42
49
56
80
71
100
40.3
70.3
Maraging
HSLA
Steels
Conclusion
As per all the counted, we can use some rating for the material:
Material
WPI INDEX
Rank
304 SS
62.8
Maraging Steel
63.925
15CDV6
59.2
D6AC
65.836
Ti Alloy
63.49
Al Alloy
62.42
HSLA Steels
70.3
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Then, For this case, as per found in WPI Index, we can use HSLA type for the correct
material for Rocket Motor Cases. But, if we have unlimited Cost, the WPI showed D6AC
or Maraging Steel is better.
Refference
[1] http://aerospaceweb.org diakses pada 4 Maret 2015
[2] Huzel, Dieter & Huang, Havid. 1957. Design of Liquid Propellant Rocket Engines
NASA, California.
[3] http://nasa.gov diakses pada 4 Maret 2015
[4] Sulton, George & P Biblarz, Oscar. 2001. Rocket Propulsion Elements John Wiley &
Sons. Canada.
[5] Rajan, K.M & Narasimhan. 2002. pp 444-449 An Approach to Selection Material and
Manufacturing Process for Rocket Motor Cases Using Weighted Performance Index.
Jurnal Of Material Engineering and Performance.
[6] Ashby, Michael F. 2000. Material Selection in Mechanicaal Design. Butterworth
Heinemann. Oxford
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