LUO Cong,GUO Ying-long,HUANG Pu,SHI Yu,WANG Mo-ru,SUN Xin-ke,HUANG Chen,XIAO Si-xin,HUANG Chao-qun,LI Wei
. 2025, 48(3):
271-278.
Thermoplastic composite solid propellant with solid content of 86.5% was prepared by resonance acoustic mixing(RAM)process by using ethylene ethyl acrylate copolymer based thermoplastic binder(EEA)as matrix, aluminum powder and ammonium perchlorate as energetic solid fillers. The rheological parameters of thermoplastic binder/propellant were measured by rheological method. The rheological properties of thermoplastic binder and thermoplastic propellant were studied systematically, including apparent viscosity, modulus, thixotropy, strain scan, frequency scan, temperature scan and time scan. The results show that the prepared propellant has good formability and flow property. The EEA-based thermoplastic propellants exhibit obvious thixotropy, and the apparent viscosity decreases with the increase in the shear rate, showing obvious pseudoplastic fluid characteristics. The viscoelastic properties of EEA-based thermoplastic propellants are frequency- and temperature-dependent, showing a second plateau at low frequency and solid-liquid transition at high temperature. Unlike thermoset propellants, the modulus and viscosity of thermoplastic propellants remain essentially constant over time.