Research paper. Final report. AFATL-TR-82-
32. Air Force Armament Laboratory. Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. 1982. – 40 p.This report covers several topics in the field of solid gun propellant combustion. They include:. (1) mass spectrometry to experimentally define the gas products of gun propellant combustion and correlate these experimental results with theoretical predictions; (2) the use of closed combustion bomb pressurization rates to extract solid propellant linear burning rate values is discussed, and correlations with strand burner data are considered; (3) the effects of moisture adsorption on solid propellant combustion rates and energy are experimentally defined, and (4) a reference section of solid propellant.Contents:
Introduction.
Combustion product analysis by mass spectrometry.
Hydrogen.
Water.
Molecular Fracture.
Data Reduction.
Closed bomb burning rate analysis.
Moisture effects on propellant combustion.
Gamma values for combustion gases.
