• Constitutive modeling of porous viscoelastic materials 

      Xu, F.; Sofronis, P.; Aravas, N.; Meyer, S. (2007)
      The effect of porosity on the constitutive response of an isotropic linearly viscoelastic solid that obeys a constitutive law of the standard differential form is investigated under small strain deformation conditions. The ...
    • Constitutive modeling of solid propellant materials with evolving microstructural damage 

      Xu, F.; Aravas, N.; Sofronis, P. (2008)
      Solid propellants are composite materials with complex microstructure. In a generic form, the material consists of polymeric binder, crystal oxidizer (e.g., ammonium perchlorate), and fuel particles (e.g., aluminum). Severe ...
    • Constitutive response and damage in solid propellants 

      Aravas, N.; Xu, F.; Sofronis, P.; Namazifard, A.; Fiedler, R. (2005)
      Solid propellants are composite materials with complex microstructure. In a generic form, the material consists of polymeric binder, ceramic oxidizer, and fuel particles (e.g. aluminum). Damage induced by severe stress and ...
    • Detailed simulations of propellant slumping in the titanIV SRMU PQM-1 

      Fiedler, R.; Namazifard, A.; Campbell, M.; Xu, F.; Aravas, N.; Sofronis, P. (2006)
      We utilize our tightly-coupled fluid/structure/combustion solid propellent rocket simulation package ("Rocstar") to study the unexpectedly large deformation of propellant at the center joint slot in a prequalification ...
    • Finite element modeling of porous solid propellants 

      Xu, F.; Sofronis, P.; Aravas, N.; Namazifard, A.; Fiedler, R. (2005)
      The effect of porosity on the constitutive response of a linearly viscoelastic solid that obeys a constitutive law of the standard differential form is investigated under small strain deformation conditions. It is demonstrated ...