Design of a Mass Driver System Concept Using Open Source Principles
- Paper number
IAC-04-U.1.07
- Author
Prof. Filippo Salustri, Ryerson Polytechnic University, United States
- Year
2004
- Abstract
The goal of the research depicted in this paper is to optimize CFRAl properties and its manufacturing technology. Amongst investigated topics are the careful choice of components, in close relation to CFRAl’s main objective, an improved curing curve for the new material, and solutions for eliminating inherent fabrication flaws, such as imperfect bonds between fibres and matrix, tiny voids and other imperfections. All these aspects are approached in a theoretical and experimental manner at the same time, making use of new CFRAl samples that have already been and are to be produced, thus engaging the developing process of the new composite in an iterative cycle with feedback on both ways, from theory to experiment and vice versa. Since CFRAl is primarily designed as a reinforcement to endure the explosion of a bomb or the impact of a speeding bullet, ballistic tests have been conducted on some preliminary samples, results analysed and improving measures applied on new specimens, which are now pending further testing. Combined with a thorough analysis of experimental results obtained on new tensile test specimens, the material’s production process and its behaviour under a variety of load conditions are to be improved, with results eventually employed in a mass production of CFRAl. Though a daring challenge, Carbon Fibers Reinforced Aluminum is a new type of composite material being developed by the Chemical Engineering Department in cooperation with the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering at University ‘POLITEHNICA’ of Bucharest, Romania. The new composite has unique and promising properties, with foreseeable excellent results in applications requiring a reliable, yet light, reinforcement material that can also withstand powerful thermal shocks. Current study represents a continuation of the work started within the last two years at UPB and is an integral part of the first author’s PhD study.
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