Material Characterisation and Constitutive Modelling of a Copper Alloy and Stainless Steel at Cryogenic and Elevated Temperatures

Abstract:

High performance rockets are developed using cryogenic technology. High thrust cryogenic rocket engines operating at elevated temperatures and pressures are the backbone of such rockets. The thrust chamber of such engines, which produce the thrust for the propulsion of the rocket, can be considered as structural elements. Often double walled construction is employed for these chambers for better cooling and enhanced performance. The thrust chamber investigated here has its hot inner wall fabricated out of a high conductivity high ductility copper alloy and outer wall made of a ductile stainless steel. The engine is indigenously designed and developed by ISRO and is undergoing hot tests. Inner wall is subjected to high thermal and pressure loads during operation of engine due to which it will be in the plastic regime. Evaluation of tensile properties of the copper alloy and stainless steel up to fracture, at cryogenic, ambient and elevated temperatures in parent metal and welded forms is of paramount importance for its constitutive modelling and thermo structural analysis of the thrust chamber.

• Periodical: Materials Science Forum (Volumes 830-831)
• Pages: 242-245
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/MSF.830-831.242
• Online since: September 2015
• Authors: A.K. Asraff*, S. Sheela, Krishnajith Jayamani, S. Sarath Chandran Nair, R. Muthukumar
• Keywords: Copper Alloy, Cryogenic, Eb Welded Specimens, Elevated Temperatures, Material Characterisation

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