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Part | Component Status | Responsible Engineers |
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| Booster Forward Retention Ring | Manufacturing Prep | Chad Meier 2023 |
Purpose
The forward retention ring serves 2 main purposes:
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Using FEA, I decided that this cross-section worked under the following conditions:
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This design has straight walls, unlike the sustainer FRR. This is because having 2 rows of bolts would make this quite difficult to manufacture. Instead, the wall thickness was decreased until the safety factor was a little above 2. The safety factor is 2.35
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