Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “2015-2016 Rocket Engine Development”
For Spring 2016, the challenge for Rocket Engine Development Stand Team was to determine how to collect the load cell data in a safe and secure manner. Together, we came up with three methods and chose the final method based on budget-efficiency and feasibility. The Stand Team had $100 to spend on both anchoring the rocket stand and wiring the …
Manufacture Team for Rocket Engine Development has completed the rocket stand., which could withstand 1000 lb of thrust from the rocket engine’s combustion. The challenge set by the Manufacturing Team was to build the stand from the CAD model made by Stand Team in Winter 2016, and to machine the rocket. We are manufacturing the stand by cutting, welding, drilling …
During Week 7, the Flow Team for Rocket Engine Development created their final fuel grain. The labs in Engineering Tower kindly allowed the team to mix and quench the fuel grain components. After two quarters of research the Flow Team decided on a composition of Carbon Black, Aluminum Powder, HTPB, IDP(HTPB catalyst) and Paraffin wax. After hours of melting, measuring, …
Being showcased this week is the Design team of the Rocket Engine Development (RED) senior design project at UCI. While others are having fun on Friday nights, these great students meet up and spend the rest of the night talking about the wonders of rocket engine design. This quarter, the goal of RED is to create and finalize the design …
Rocket Engine Development has been showing significant progress at the halfway point of fall quarter. The goal at this stage in the project was to have a working computer engineered model that would have all the correct values to represent a working hybrid rocket engine. At this point we have achieved this goal. The design team has a final nozzle …
