Design and analysis of aluminum alloy-rigid polyurethane foam-cored common bulkhead for cryogenic tanks
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摘要: 采用铝合金面板-硬质聚氨酯泡沫夹芯的复合式夹层构型,设计了一种用于低温火箭推进剂贮箱的共底结构,其具有轻量化、易于制造、承载/隔热一体化的特点。通过数值模拟手段,对该共底的隔热效果、结构稳定性及热力耦合问题进行分析。结果表明,该共底满足低温液氢/液氧贮箱隔热要求,在0.342 MPa压差下不失稳,单箱打压低于0.5 MPa时材料不失效。此结构的设计分析可为新型低温贮箱共底的设计提供技术支持。Abstract: By using a sandwich construction that consists of aluminum alloy panels-rigid polyurethane foam, a common bulkhead was devised for cryogenic launch vehicle tanks. The common bulkhead has the characteristics of lightweight, easy to manufacture, and integrated load bearing/thermal insulation. Based on numerical simulations, thermal insulation effect, structural stability and thermal-mechanical coupling behavior of the common bulkhead were analyzed. The results show that the common bulkhead not only satisfies the thermal insulation requirements of cryogenic tanks for liquid hydrogen and oxygen, but also keeps structural stability under a differential pressure of 0.342 MPa and material safety with a pressure of 0.5 MPa. The design and analysis of this structure can provide technical support for the design of new cryogenic tanks with a common bulkhead.
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Key words:
- common bulkhead /
- rigid polyurethane foam /
- cryogenic tank /
- numerical simulation /
- thermal insulation
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表 1 上下金属面板尺寸参数
Table 1. Size parameters of upper and lower metal panels
ai/m bi/m Upper panel 1.6 1.589 Lower panel 1.12 1.069 Notes: ${a_{\rm{i}}}$, ${b_{\rm{i}}}$—Lengthes of semimajor axis and semiminor axis of metal panels, respectively. 表 2 贮箱共底所用各材料的热性能和力学性能
Table 2. Thermal and mechanical properties of materials for common bulkhead
ρ/(g·cm−3) E/MPa v Sc/MPa Sy/MPa λ/(10−6·℃−1) C/(J(g·℃−1)) k/(W(m·℃−1)) Al alloy 2.84 73100 0.33 483 414 20.8 0.88 154 GFRP 1.85 26000 0.28 500 — 8 1.130 0.586 RPU 0.043 32 0.3 0.33 0.32 0.022T+24.76 1.751 0.0417 PMI 0.11 180 0.29 3.55 — 50 2.0 0.0295 Notes: ρ—Density; E—Elastic modulus; v—Poisson’s ratio; Sc, Sy—Compressive strength and yield strength, respectively; λ—Thermal expansion coefficient; C—Specific heat capacity; k—Coefficient of heat conductivity; T—Temperature; GFRP—Glass fiber reinforced plastic; RPU—Rigid polyurethane; PMI—Polymethacrylimide. 表 3 共底结构前八阶屈曲临界载荷
Table 3. First eight critical buckling loads for common bulkhead structure
N=1 N=2 N=3 N=4 N=5 N=6 N=7 N=8 PCr /MPa 0.342 0.343 0.367 0.368 0.378 0.380 0.388 0.392 Note: PCr—Critical buckling load. 表 4 本文数值方法分析结果与文献[18]试验结果的对比
Table 4. Comparison between this numerical simulation results and experiment results in Ref. [18]
Load case Upper panel Lower panel Experiment
value/MPaSimulation
value/MPaRelative
error/%Experiment
value/MPaSimulation
value /MPaRelative
error/%LT filling −172.0 −185.6 7.9 178.7 180.9 1.3 LT, P1=0.4 MPa, P2=0.47 MPa −174.0 −188.1 8.1 202.6 208.2 2.8 LT, P1=0.56 MPa, P2=0.658 MPa −177.2 −184.6 4.2 203.0 227.9 12.3 LT, P1=0.4 MPa, P2=0.23 MPa −250.7 −273.0 8.9 151.6 164.0 8.2 Notes: LT—Low temperature; P1, P2—Pressure of kerosene tank and oxygen tank, respectively. -
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