A solid rocket motor (SRM) is a rocket engine that uses a fuel/oxidizer mixture in a solid state; the most commonly employed propellants are Hydroxyl-Terminated Polybutadiene (HTPB) as the fuel and ammonium/potassium perchlorate as the oxidizer. To increase the flight range of this kind of vehicle, the weight has to be reduced as much as possible. A possible element that can be worked on is the coating of the combustion chamber: the skirt. The aim of this paper is to investigate the behavior of a cylindrical skirt subjected to internal pressure load and axial thrust and to compare the performance of a skirt made of a standard steel for aeronautics purposes with a carbon-fiber-reinforced composite skirt. The motor test case is taken from the ONERA C1xb and the flowfield is simulated with an axisymmetric - turbulence model. The carbon-fiber-reinforced composite skirt is a cylindrical shell with a symmetric and balanced layup [90/0/45/-45]s. To check composite layer integrity, Hashin's failure criteria were adopted while linearized buckling methods were used to assess the buckling behavior of the skirt. The composite layup was modeled by adopting the classical laminate theory.
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