Numerical simulation of Atlas-Centaur stage-separation shaped charge firing and structural response
Abstract
Numerical simulations were made of a flexible linear shaped charge missile stage separation system. Both the shaped charge firing and the missile structural response are modeled in detail. The numerical approach is verified by good agreement with laboratory ballistic pendulum tests and full scale stage separation tests. Parameter studies with the model have helped to identify a particular sensitivity of peak stress to a gap dimension.
- Publication:
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Shock Vibration Information Center Shock Vibration Bulletin
- Pub Date:
- August 1986
- Bibcode:
- 1986SVICB.......45H
- Keywords:
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- Dynamic Response;
- Failure Analysis;
- Mathematical Models;
- Shaped Charges;
- Stage Separation;
- Finite Difference Theory;
- Linear Systems;
- Missile Design;
- Stress Analysis;
- Launch Vehicles and Space Vehicles