MTech Missile And Launch Vehicles syllabus for 3 Sem 2020 scheme 20MAP331

Module-1 Introduction 0 hours

Introduction:

Space launch Vehicles and military missiles, function, types, role, mission, mission profile, thrust profile, propulsion system, payload, staging, control and guidance requirements, performance measures, design, construction, operation, similarities and differences. Some famous space launch vehicles and strategic missiles.

Module-2 Solid Propellant Rocket Motor Systems 0 hours

Solid Propellant Rocket Motor Systems:

Solid Propellant rocket motors, principal features, applications. Solid propellants, types, composition, properties, performance. Propellant grain, desirable properties, grain configuration, preparation, loading, structural design of grain. Liners, insulators and inhibitors, function, requirements, materials. Rocket motor casing – materials. Nozzles, types, design, construction, thermal protection. Igniters, types, construction. Description of modern solid boosters I) Space Shuttle SRB, II)theArienne SRB

 

Liquid Propellant Rocket Motor Systems:

Liquid propellants, types, composition, properties, performance. Propellant tanks, feed systems, pressurization, turbo-pumps, valves and feed lines, injectors, starting and ignition. Engine cooling, support structure. Control of engine starting and thrust build up, system calibration, integration and optimisation – safety and environmental concerns. Description of the spaceshuttle main engine. Propellant slosh, propellant hammer, geysering effect in cryogenic rocket engines.

A d v e r t i s e m e n t
Module-3 Aerodynamics of Rockets and Missiles 0 hours

Aerodynamics of Rockets and Missiles:

Classification of missiles. Airframe components of rockets and missiles, Forces acting on a missile while passing through atmosphere, method of describing aerodynamic forces and moments, lateral aerodynamic moment, lateral damping moment, longitudinal moment of a rocket, lift and drag forces, drag estimation, body upwash and downwash in missiles. Rocket dispersion, re-entry body design considerations.

Module-4 Launch Vehicle Dynamics 0 hours

Launch Vehicle Dynamics:

Tsiolskovsky’s rocket equation, range in the absence of gravity, vertical motion in the earth’s gravitational field, inclined motion, flight path at constant pitch angle, motion in the atmosphere, the gravity turn – the culmination altitude, multi staging. Earth launch trajectories – vertical segment, the gravity turn, constant pitch trajectory, orbital injection. Actual launch vehicle trajectories, types. Examples, the Mu 3-SII, Ariane, Pegasus launchers. Reusable launch vehicles, future launchers, launch assist technologies.

 

Attitude Control Of Rockets And Missiles:

Rocket Thrust Vector Control – Methods of Thrusts Vector Control for solid and liquid propulsion systems, thrust magnitude control, thrust termination; stage separation dynamics, separation techniques

Module-5 Rocket Testing 0 hours

Rocket Testing:

Ground Testing and Flight Testing, Types of Tests facilities and safeguards, monitoring and control of toxic materials, instrumentation and data management. Ground Testing, Flight Testing, Trajectory monitoring, post -accident procedures. Description of a typical space launch vehicle launch procedure.

 

Materials:

Criteria for selection of materials for rockets and missiles, requirements for choice of materials for propellant tanks, liners, insulators, inhibitors, at cryogenic temperatures, requirements of materials at extremely high temperatures, requirements of materials for thermal protection and for pressure vessels.

 

Course outcomes:

At the end of the course the student will be able to:

1. Identify the types of space launch vehicles and missiles.

2. Distinguish the solid and liquid propellant motors.

3. Classify different types of materials used for rockets and missiles.

 

Question paper pattern:

The SEE question paper will be set for 100 marks and the marks scored will be proportionately reduced to 60.

  • The question paper will have ten full questions carrying equal marks.
  • Each full question is for 20 marks.
  • There will be two full questions (with a maximum of four sub questions) from each module.
  • Each full question will have sub question covering all the topics under a module.
  • The students will have to answer five full questions, selecting one full question from each module.

 

Textbook/ Textbooks

1 Rocket Propulsion Element George P Sutton and Oscar Biblarz John Wiley and Sons Inc 7 th edition,2010

2 Missile Aerodynamics Jack N Neilson AIAA 1 st edition, 1988

 

Reference Books

1 Missile Configuration Design’ SS Chin 1 st edition &1961

2 Rocket Propulsion and Space-Flight Dynamics Cornelisse, J.W., Schoyer H.F.R. and Wakker,. K.F Pitman 1979

3 Rocket and Spacecraft propulsion Turner, M.J.L Springer 3 rd edition,2010

4 Space Vehicle Dynamics Ball, K.J., Osborne, G.F., Oxford University Press 1967

5 Materials for Missiles and Spacecraft Parker, E.R McGraw Hill 1982

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