Submitted by Johnny Rodrigues (johnnyrodrigues@ufcg.edu.br) on 2018-04-25T15:51:00Z No. of bitstreams: 1 FRANCISCO GALDINO JÚNIOR - DISSERTAÇÃO PPGEM 2014..pdf: 6213176 bytes, checksum: 50d50ccb2736f335fb4e52475cb149f7 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-04-25T15:51:00Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 FRANCISCO GALDINO JÚNIOR - DISSERTAÇÃO PPGEM 2014..pdf: 6213176 bytes, checksum: 50d50ccb2736f335fb4e52475cb149f7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-08-28 / O crescente desenvolvimento de materiais compósitos reforçados nos últimos anos tem propiciado novas alternativas para solucionar diversos problemas acerca da necessidade de novos materiais com combinações de propriedades. Para utilizarmos tais materiais, devemos realizar vários ensaios mecânicos, como: tração, compressão, flexão e principalmente de impacto. Para isso, foram realizados estudos específicos sobre materiais compósitos e impactos em estruturas laminadas. Através desses estudos e de um levantamento do estado da arte acerca do projeto de diversas máquinas de impacto por queda de peso, foi projetada e fabricada uma máquina de impacto por queda de peso para materiais compósitos de simples concepção. A máquina desenvolvida possui um intervalo de energia de impacto entre 20J e 96J, obtida através de variação da massa de queda de impacto. Foi desenvolvido também um sistema instrumentação para aquisição da força de impacto e da energia absorvida pelo corpo de prova, além de um sistema anti rebote eletromecânico. Para a validação do equipamento foram realizados ensaios de impacto por queda de peso em placas compósitas de fibra de vidro com 8, 10, 12 e 14 camadas e analisado os danos causados nas mesmas, através de software de análise de imagem. A partir de um software de análise de vídeo foi possível calcular a velocidade de impacto e a energia de impacto nos ensaios e comparar com o método teórico e o instrumentado. / The increasing development of reinforced composite materials in recent years has provided new alternatives to solve various problems about the need for new materials with combinations of properties. For such materials we use, we conduct various mechanical tests, such as tensile, compression, bending and mainly impact. For this, specific studies on composite materials, and impact on laminate structures were performed. Through these studies and a survey of state of the art about the project in several of drop impact weight machines, is designed and manufactured a machine to drop impact weight for composites of simple design. The machine has developed a range of impact energy of 20J, and 96J, obtained by varying the mass of the drop impact. One instrumentation system for the acquisition of the impact force and energy absorbed by the specimen was also developed, and an anti rebound electromechanical system. To validate the equipment impact tests were performed by weight loss in composite plates with glass fiber 8, 10, 12 and 14 layers and analyzed the damage caused in the same via image analysis software. From a software video analysis it was possible to calculate the impact velocity and impact energy in the tests and compare with the theoretical method and instrumented.

<p>This work investigated the effects of varying the crystal sizes of ammonium perchlorate (AP) when embedded with a polymeric binder, hydroxyl-terminated polybutadiene (HTPB) on impact-induced temperature behavior.  AP and HTPB are the most used oxidizers and fuel binders in the aerospace solid rocket design industry. In this study, samples of 200 µm and 400µm coarse AP crystals in HTPB were constructed using a conventional hand-mixing method. Using a parametric optimization technique such as the Taguchi method, direct-ink-writing as the additive manufacturing process was used for achieving the required shape fidelity in printing HTPB and by introducing ultraviolet polymers to decrease the curing time.</p> <p>A drop hammer experiment in conjunction with an infrared camera was used to study the impact-induced behavior in the conventionally made AP-HTPB samples. The thermal images obtained from the camera at millisecond resolution are invaluable and provide information about distribution across the sample surface, and the evolution of temperature rise observed in the samples which are complex and not easily understood otherwise and therefore help in improving and attaining desired propellant performance. A two-sample t-Test has been utilized to infer the results and statistical nonsignificance has been observed in the highest temperature rises among 200 µm and 400 µm AP-HTPB sample conditions but a difference in temperature distribution has been observed. A much uniform distribution of temperature over the sample surface on impact is observed in thermal images of 200 µm AP-HTPB sample condition compared to 400 µm AP-HTPB sample condition.</p>