AS3611 Space Launch Vehicle Design Project Syllabus:
AS3611 Space Launch Vehicle Design Project Syllabus – Anna University Regulation 2021
OBJECTIVES:
• To make the student work in groups and effectively improve their team work.
• To understand the concepts involved in designing the space launch vehicle.
• To learn the conceptual stage of a spacecraft design in respect of its stability.
• To Understand the necessary phases in the design process and produce the required outcomes of each phase.
TASKS:
1. Classification of rocketry & launch vehicles.
2. Current & future launch vehicles, Orbit/trajectory requirements and missions.
3. Rocket propulsion: generation of thrust, the rocket equation. Specific impulse, types of engines, Launch vehicle parameters & performance.
4. Staging, Structure & propulsion design trades.
5. Powered flight. Gravity loss, Ascent through the atmosphere, drag loss, Vehicle coordinates, moving coordinate systems, The local horizon frames. Motion of the launch site, Ascent trajectories, The gravity-turn trajectory, Numerical calculation of trajectories.
6. Application of software in trajectory calculation, Optimization principles, Introduction to GPOPS2 program & application to launch optimization, Structures: tanks, inter-tank & interstage structure, thrust structure, separation systems.
7. Δv & initial sizing, inboard profile & layout, Engine selection, Preliminary mass estimation.
8. Loads from ground winds, loads during flight: thrust, aero, & inertial forces, Trimmed flight, Max-q, Calculation of internal forces, moments, shears.
9. Calculation of stresses due to external loads, internal pressurization, Tank & inter-stage structural design, Vibration, shock, acoustic, and thermal effects.
10. VS&A, thermal, concluded Guidance, stability & control.
11. Structural flexibility effects, Instabilities, Manufacturing, Launch pad & facilities.
12. Ground testing, Safety & flight termination systems.
TOTAL: 60 PERIODS
OUTCOMES:
On successful completion of this course, the student will be able to
• Recommend a design brief for a complex, indeterminate aerospace system into a set of well defined engineering requirement.
• Evaluate design concepts for aerospace systems using analysis, experiment or simulation methods.
• Prioritize a number of standard methods to various phases of the design process
REFERENCES:
1. Griffin and French, “Space Vehicle Design”, AIAA, 2004, ISBN 1563475391.
2. Meyer R., “Elements of Space Technology”, Academic Press, 1999, ISBN 0124929400
3. Sforza, “Manned Spacecraft Design Principles”, Elsevier, 2016, ISBN 9780128044254
4. Walter U., “Astronautics”, WILEY-VCH, 2008, ISBN 9783527406852