Burning Characteristics of Consolidated Gun Propellants

作者：Li, Yuxiang^*; Yang, Weitao; Ying, Sanjiu

来源：Propellants, Explosives, Pyrotechnics, 2015, 40(1): 33-38.

DOI：10.1002/prep.201400153

• Consolidated propellant
• Foaming
• High burning rate
• Quenched combustion
• Progressivity

To improve the combustion behaviors of conventional consolidated propellants, consolidated propellants were prepared using porous propellant grains as fast-burning filler. The porous propellant grains were prepared by supercritical fluid foaming process and exhibited the high burning rate. The multi-perforated structure of the consolidated propellants was designed and adopted to obtain high burning progressivity. To investigate the burning characteristics of the consolidated propellants, closed vessel and quenched combustion experiments were carried out. The results show that deconsolidation of the consolidated propellants does not occur, and that the consolidated propellants exhibit high burning rates and high burning progressivities. Besides, the results show that the consolidated propellants burn steadily even at low (-40 degrees C) and high temperatures (50 degrees C).

• 出版日期2015-2
• 单位南京理工大学