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Recovering aerodynamic side loads on rocket nozzles using quasi-static strain-gage measurements
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | McDaniels, David M. Ruf, Joseph H. Brown, Andrew |
| Copyright Year | 2009 |
| Description | During over-expanded operation of rocket nozzles, which is defined to be when the exit pressure is greater than internal pressure over some part of the nozzle, the nozzle will experience a transverse forcing function due to the pressure differential across the nozzle wall. Over-expansion occurs during the nozzle start-up and shutdown transient, even in high-altitude engines, because most test facilities cannot completely reproduce the near-vacuum pressures at those altitudes. During this transient, the pressure differential moves axially down the nozzle as it becomes pressurized, but this differential is never perfectly symmetric circumferentially. The character of the forcing function is highly complex and defined by a series of restricted and free shock separations. The subject of this paper is the determination of the magnitude of this loading during sub-scale testing via measurement of the structural dynamic response of the nozzle and its support structure. An initial attempt at back-calculating this load using the inverse of the transfer function was performed, but this attempt was shown to be highly susceptible to numerical error. The final method chosen was to use statically calibrated strain data and to filter out the system fundamental frequency such that the measured response yields close to the correct dynamic loading function. This method was shown to capture 93% of the pressure spectral energy using controlled load shaker testing. This method is one of the only practical ways for the inverse determination of the forcing function for non-stationary excitations, and, to the authors' knowledge, has not been described in the literature to date. |
| File Size | 3451484 |
| Page Count | 10 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_20090023551 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t8x97647s |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 2009-05-04 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Spacecraft Propulsion And Power Dynamic Response Rocket Nozzles Test Facilities Nozzle Walls Transfer Functions Strain Gages Dynamic Loads Aerodynamic Loads Loads Forces Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
