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Uncertainty analysis and design

optimization of solid rocket motors
with finocyl grain
Zhu Hao , Luo Haowen, Wang Pengcheng, Cai Guobiao
& Hu Feng 

Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization  62, 3521–

3537(2020)
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Abstract

The traditional multidisciplinary design

optimization (MDO) method for the conceptual
design of the solid rocket motor (SRM) is usually
deterministic and seldom focuses on systematic
design optimization. This paper develops a
systematic design model of the SRM with a finocyl
grain and proposes an approach for uncertainty
analysis and design optimization of SRM. The mean
value and standard deviation of the target function,
as well as the probability that the constraints can be
met, are calculated using Monte Carlo simulation
(MCS) analysis. The uncertainty-based
multidisciplinary design optimization (UMDO),
together with the deterministic multidisciplinary
design optimization (DMDO), is applied to the
conceptual design of SRM based on the third-stage
engine ZEFIRO9 of the Vega launch vehicle. By
main effect diagrams and Pareto diagrams, the
most influential design variables and standard
deviation of uncertain parameters are obtained,
which can help designers understand more of the
uncertainty relationships between parameters and
system performance.

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Affiliations

1. School of Astronautics, Beihang University,

Beijing, 100191, China
 Zhu Hao, Luo Haowen, Wang
Pengcheng & Cai Guobiao

2. Key Laboratory of Spacecraft Design

Optimization & Dynamic Simulation
Technologies, Ministry of Education, Beijing,
China

Zhu Hao, Luo Haowen, Wang

Pengcheng & Cai Guobiao

3. Xi’an Changfeng Institute of Electrical and

Mechanical, Xi’an, 710065, China

Hu Feng

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Hao, Z., Haowen, L., Pengcheng, W. et al.

Uncertainty analysis and design optimization of
solid rocket motors with finocyl grain. Struct
Multidisc Optim 62, 3521–3537 (2020).
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00158-020-02728-8

Received17 October 2019

Revised17 July 2020

Accepted21 August 2020

Published02 September 2020

Issue DateDecember 2020

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1007/s00158-020-
02728-8

Keywords

Uncertainty analysis
 Design optimization
Solid rocket motor
Finocyl grain

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