SOLID PROPELLANT ROCKET RESEARCH by Summerfield, M. (ed) reviewed by Frederick I. Ordway III

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SOLID PROPELLANT ROCKET RESEARCH

by Summerfield, M. (ed)

New York, 1960: Academic Press, 692 pages, $6.50

Volume 1 of a new series entitled "Progress in Astronautics and Rocketry" (M. Summerfield, ed), the book is divided into six principal areas: "Mechanical Properties of Grains," "Steady-State Burning Mechanisms," "Combustion of Metals," "Theories of Unstable Combustion," "Experiments of Unstable Burning," and "Solid Propellant Ignition." Among the chapters are "Grain Design and Development Problems for Very Large Rocket Motors," "Stress and Strain Analysis of Cylindrical Case-bonded Grains," "Burning Mechanism of Ammonium Perchlorate Propellants," "The Role of Binder in Composite Propellant Combustion," "Combustion Characteristics of Metal Particles," "Heat Transfer Stability Analysis of Solid Propellant Rocket Motors," "Combustion Instability in Solid Rockets Using Propellants with Reactive Additives," "Experimental Investigations of Unstable Burning in Solid Propellant Rocket Motors," "Resonant Burning of Solid Propellants: Review of Causes, Cures and Effects," and "Solid Propellant Ignition Studies with High Flux Radiant Energy as a Thermal Source."

Extracted from the 1962 Publication Annotated Bibliography of Space Science and Technology with an Astronomical Supplement - A History of Astronautical Book Literature 1931 - 1961. by Frederick I. Ordway III