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Quality Assurance Challenges for Development of Crew Escape System Motors


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1 Quality Assurance and Reliability – Fabrication Group, System Reliability Entity, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Thiruvananthapuram 695 022, India
 

Crew Escape System (CES) motors for Human Rated Launch Vehicle (HRLV) have been newly designed. These solid motors have special nozzle configuration. The development of these motors was a challenging task due to stringent design specification and intricate nozzle configuration. This paper emphasizes the fabrication challenges encountered during realization of CES hardware, details of process and quality improvement done, to overcome the challenges faced during fabrication and to achieve the stringent geometrical requirements and dimensional accuracies as specified by designer.

Keywords

Crew Escape System, Escape Motors, Launch Vehicle, Quality Assurance.
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Authors

Suvendu Jana
Quality Assurance and Reliability – Fabrication Group, System Reliability Entity, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Thiruvananthapuram 695 022, India
S. M. Sreedhar
Quality Assurance and Reliability – Fabrication Group, System Reliability Entity, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Thiruvananthapuram 695 022, India
R. Krishnakumar
Quality Assurance and Reliability – Fabrication Group, System Reliability Entity, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Thiruvananthapuram 695 022, India
R. Vinod Kumar
Quality Assurance and Reliability – Fabrication Group, System Reliability Entity, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Thiruvananthapuram 695 022, India
S. Saratchandran
Quality Assurance and Reliability – Fabrication Group, System Reliability Entity, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Thiruvananthapuram 695 022, India

Abstract


Crew Escape System (CES) motors for Human Rated Launch Vehicle (HRLV) have been newly designed. These solid motors have special nozzle configuration. The development of these motors was a challenging task due to stringent design specification and intricate nozzle configuration. This paper emphasizes the fabrication challenges encountered during realization of CES hardware, details of process and quality improvement done, to overcome the challenges faced during fabrication and to achieve the stringent geometrical requirements and dimensional accuracies as specified by designer.

Keywords


Crew Escape System, Escape Motors, Launch Vehicle, Quality Assurance.



DOI: https://doi.org/10.18520/cs%2Fv120%2Fi1%2F147-151