Missiles and Launch Vehicles AS 6th Sem Syllabus for VTU BE 2017 Scheme

Missiles and Launch Vehicles detail syllabus for Aerospace Engineering (As), 2017 scheme is taken from VTU official website and presented for VTU students. The course code (17AS64), and for exam duration, Teaching Hr/week, Practical Hr/week, Total Marks, internal marks, theory marks, duration and credits do visit complete sem subjects post given below.

For all other as 6th sem syllabus for be 2017 scheme vtu you can visit AS 6th Sem syllabus for BE 2017 Scheme VTU Subjects. The detail syllabus for missiles and launch vehicles is as follows.

Course Objectives:

This course will enable students to

1. Understand the types of space launch vehicles and missiles.
2. Study the solid and liquid rocket motors.
3. Acquire the knowledge on launch vehicle dynamics, attitude control, rocket testing and materials.

Module 1

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Module 2

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)the Arienne 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 space shuttle main engine. Propellant slosh, propellant hammer, geysering effect in cryogenic rocket engines.

Module 3

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

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Module 5

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:

After studying this course, students 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 missies.

Graduate Attributes (as per NBA):

• Engineering Knowledge.
• Problem Analysis.
• Design / development of solutions
• Interpretation of data

Question paper pattern:

• The question paper will have ten questions.
• Each full question consists of 16 marks.
• There will be 2 full questions (with a maximum of four sub questions) from each module.
• Each full question will have sub questions covering all the topics under a module.
• The students will have to answer 5 full questions, selecting one full question from each module.

Text Books:

1. George P Sutton and Oscar Biblarz, Rocket Propulsion Element, John Wiley and Sons Inc,7th edition, 2010,ISBN-13: 978-8126525775.
2. Jack N Neilson, Missile Aerodynamics, AIAA,1st edition, 1988,ISBN-13: 9780962062902.

Reference Books:

1. S S Chin, Missile Configuration Design’.
2. Cornelisse, J.W., Schoyer H.F.R. and Wakker,. K.F., Rocket Propulsion and Space-Flight Dynamics, Pitman, 1979,ISBN-13: 978-0273011415
3. Turner, M.J.L., Rocket and Spacecraft propulsion, Springer,3rd edition,2010,ISBN-13: 9783642088698.
4. Ball, K.J., Osborne, G.F., Space Vehicle Dynamics, Oxford University Press, 1967,ISBN-13: 978-0198561071
5. Parker, E.R., Materials for Missiles and Spacecraft, McGraw Hill, 1982.

For detail syllabus of all other subjects of BE As, 2017 scheme do visit As 6th Sem syllabus for 2017 scheme.

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