Aerospace rocket motor manufacture requires many different testing operations to assure product quality. The test laboratories at Hercules Bacchus Works in magna. Utah are responsible or both the chemcial and mechanical test associated with the solid rocket propellant. Several of the tests performed are high volume, tedious tasks, making them excellent candidates for automation. A present, the test laboratories at Hercules have six tests which were chosen for automation. Systems for tensile chemical, and penetration testing of propellant are now in production. Systems to automate tensile testing of propellant casebond analogs and graphite samples, and short beam shear and flexural testing of graphite composites, are in the development phase. The use of automation in the test laboratories promises to return large cost savings and increasse safety by reducing operator involvement with these labor intensive tasks. Quality will also improve because of the inherent repeatability of automated operations.
Automated aerospace rocket motor test laboratories
Versuchslaboratorien für automatische Luft- und Raumfahrtraketentriebwerke
1989
8 Seiten
Conference paper
English
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