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Newsletter, Volume 6
A propellant tank as a demonstrator
Yuzhnoye SDO within the MODCOMP project is
developing a demonstrator - a propellant tank,
which is a cocoon type structure with a diameter
of ~ 300 mm and a length of ~ 600 mm.
Three demonstrators have been made in the
project: the technological one from the material
used by Yuzhnoye SDO for units of this type,
from the material adopted in the project (HTA40
E13 6K 400 tex carbon fiber) and from HTA40
E13 6K 400 tex carbon fiber treated with ASPN5
active screen plasma at UoB (University of
Birmingham, United Kingdom) (picture below).
Yuzhnoye’s demonstrators Winding process of the Yuzhnoye’s demonstrator
The demonstrators were made on a five-axis In order to confirm the project concept, all the
winding machine with MAW 20 FB5/1 CNC (pic- demonstrators were tested with internal pres-
ture below). sure to destruction.
The tests were carried out on the hydraulic
bench of Yuzhnoye SDO with a maximum work-
ing pressure of 750 atm and using tooling spe-
cially developed in the project (picture below).
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