Air Force Rocket Propulsion Laboratory Scientific And Engineering Seminar Abstracts PDF Download

Summaries are given of the following seminars: Recent advances in solid propellant development; Fluorine technology; Advanced thrust chamber cooling; Rocket performance prediction and analysis; Nuclear rocket engine reactors and engine/vehicle integration; Thermal control of space propulsion systems; Plasma physics and application to rocketry; Electric propulsion for space vehicles; Solid propellant mechanical properties testing, failure criteria and aging; Effect of design on booster characteristics; Advanced propellants; Human factors and maintenance in space; Concepts of hypersonic ablation; Digital and analog simulation of distributed parameter systems; Principles of cryogenic engineering; Deformation and fracture of viscoelastic materials; The challenge of effective technical speaking; FM systems; Hey, wait for me, I'm your leader; Trajectory and orbital mechanics; Operations research and decision making; The new industrial economics - an adjustment process; Communication and the managerial process; Solid propellants (oscillatory and unstable combustion); ARPA liquid programs; Shocks and their effects on propellants.