On Readings

I assembled this list readings for the second recovery meeting of the 2018-2019 year. Sources in the form of name, date are books and those with more complete citations are in the Zotero library. RT has Knacke, 1992. All other books can be found in Barker except for both volumes of Poynter which can be acquired through BorrowDirect.

This list is not comprehensive. If you truly want to gain a full understanding of recovery engineering, read through Knacke, Ewing, and Poynter. Unfortunately the handbooks are dense and poorly organized; keep them on hand and be prepared to reread them.

Deployment Readings

  1. Ewing, 1963

    1. 128-138 “Decelerator Subsystems”

    2. 235-243 “Deployment”

      1. Don’t worry about the the math. Most of it is out of date and the rest is better explained by other authors

    3. 426-432 “Protection... from High Temperatures” through “Snatch Forces”

      1. See Figures 8.9, 8.10.B

      2. Don’t worry about the the math. Most of it is out of date and the rest is better explained by other authors

  2. Knacke, 1963

    1. While this edition of Knacke is old, it contains some information not found in the 1992 edition. While reading it, keep in mind that there are new materials and methods.

    2. 370-372 “2.3” 2.4.1-2.4.1 focus on 2.4.2

    3. 389-392 “3.5 Deployment Bags”

      1. While this edition of Knacke is old, it contains some information not found in the 1992 edition. While reading it, keep in mind that there are new materials and methods.

  3. Knacke, 1992

    1. 5-38 - 5-56 “Opening Forces

      1. Fig. 5-50

    2. 5-62 - 5-67 “Typical Opening Force Diagrams”

      1. Useful for developing an intuition of what influences deployment

    3. 6-1 - 6-13 “6.1 Parachute Deployment and Installations”

    4. 6-47 - 6-54 “6.3.5 Parachute Deployment Components”

    5. 6-55 - 6-58 “6.4.2 Load and Design Factors”

  4. “Peak Load of a Drogue” Potvin, 2015

  5. “Updating and Upgrading the World's Database on the Opening Shock Factor Ck” Potvin, 2009

  6. “WPP-263 - 05 Parachute Deployment” Wolf, 2005

  7. “WPP-263 - 05 Parachute Inflation” Wolf, 2005

  8. “Hermes Deployment Sequence” MIT Rocket Team Wiki

Systems Readings

  1. “MER PDR” 2001

  2. “Requirements Management” Hrastar, 2004

  3. “Requirements and the NASA Experience” 2013

  4. “NASA Systems Engineering Handbook” Hirshorn, 2016

    1. Parts of this should be read carefully and parts can be skimmed and skipped. Determine what is relevant.

  5. “Writing Specifications” Oriel

  6. Knacke, 1992

    1. 2-4 - 2-7

Parachutes Readings

  1. Knacke, 1992

    1. 5-1 - 5-38 “5.1 Decelerator Types” through “5.3”

    2. 5-98 - 5-106 “5.8.2 Supersonic Parachutes”

    3. 6-13 - 6-47 “6.2 - 6.3 Parachute Design”

    4. 6-74 - 6-92 “6.6 Designing and Fabricating in Textiles”

  2. “WPP-263 - 02 Parachute Definitions and Types” Lingard, 2005

  3. “WPP-263 - 03 Steady Aerodynamics” Lingard, 2005

  4. “A historical summary of the design, development, and analysis of the disk-gap-band parachute” Clark and Tanner, 2017

  5. “Wind tunnel testing of various disk-gap-band parachutes” Cruz, 2003

  6. “WPP-263 - 11 Supersonic Parachutes” Lingard, 2005

  7. MIT Rocket Team Wiki

    1. Recovery Materials

      1. Also read links

    2. Parachute Design and Fabrication

      1. Also read links

  8. “Design and Testing of High-Performance Parachutes” Maydew, 1991

  9. Look up tow testing in Ewing and Knacke

Integration

  1. https://wikis.mit.edu/confluence/display/RocketTeam/Hermes+Integration+Procedure

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