Acoustics & Sonar Engineering Radar, Missiles & Defense Systems ...

March 26-28, 2012
Columbia, Maryland
$1795 (8:30am - 4:00pm)
"Register 3 or More & Receive $100 00 each
Off The Course Tuition."
Summary
This three-day short course covers the fundamentals of
missile design, development, and system engineering. The
course provides a system-level, integrated method for missile
aerodynamic configuration/propulsion design and analysis. It
addresses the broad range of
alternatives in meeting cost,
performance and risk requirements.
The methods presented are generally
simple closed-form analytical
expressions that are physics-based, to
provide insight into the primary driving
parameters. Configuration sizing
examples are presented for rocketpowered,
ramjet-powered, and turbo-jet
powered baseline missiles. Typical
values of missile parameters and the
characteristics of current operational
missiles are discussed as well as the enabling subsystems and
technologies for missiles and the current/projected state-of-theart.
Sixty-six videos illustrate missile development activities and
missile performance. Daily roundtable discussion. Attendees
will vote on the relative emphasis of the material to be
presented. Attendees receive course notes as well as the
textbook, Tactical Missile Design, 2nd edition.
Instructor
Eugene L. Fleeman has 47 years of government,
industry, academia, and consulting
experience in missile system and
technology development. Formerly a
manager of missile programs at Air Force
Research Laboratory, Rockwell
International, Boeing, and Georgia Tech,
he is an international lecturer on missiles
and the author of over 100 publications, including the AIAA
textbook, Tactical Missile Design. 2nd Ed.
What You Will Learn
• Key drivers in the missile design and system engineering
process.
• Critical tradeoffs, methods and technologies in subsystems,
aerodynamic, propulsion, and structure sizing.
• Launch platform-missile integration.
• Robustness, lethality, guidance navigation & control,
accuracy, observables, survivability, reliability, and cost
considerations.
• Missile sizing examples.
• Missile development process.
Who Should Attend
The course is oriented toward the needs of missile
engineers, systems engineers, analysts, marketing
personnel, program managers, university professors, and
others working in the area of missile systems and technology
development. Attendees will gain an understanding of missile
design, missile technologies, launch platform integration,
missile system measures of merit, and the missile system
development process.
Missile System Design
Course Outline
1. Introduction/Key Drivers in the Missile Design and
System Engineering Process: Overview of missile design
process. Examples of system-of-systems integration. Unique
characteristics of missiles. Key aerodynamic configuration sizing
parameters. Missile conceptual design synthesis process. Examples
of processes to establish mission requirements. Projected capability
in command, control, communication, computers, intelligence,
surveillance, reconnaissance (C4ISR). Example of Pareto analysis.
Attendees vote on course emphasis.
2. Aerodynamic Considerations in Missile Design and
System Engineering: Optimizing missile aerodynamics. Shapes for
low observables. Missile configuration layout (body, wing, tail)
options. Selecting flight control alternatives. Wing and tail sizing.
Predicting normal force, drag, pitching moment, stability, control
effectiveness, lift-to-drag ratio, and hinge moment. Maneuver law
alternatives.
3. Propulsion Considerations in Missile Design and
System Engineering: Turbojet, ramjet, scramjet, ducted rocket,
and rocket propulsion comparisons. Turbojet engine design
considerations, prediction and sizing. Selecting ramjet engine,
booster, and inlet alternatives. Ramjet performance prediction and
sizing. High density fuels. Solid propellant alternatives. Propellant
grain cross section trade-offs. Effective thrust magnitude control.
Reducing propellant observables. Rocket motor performance
prediction and sizing. Motor case and nozzle materials.
4. Weight Considerations in Missile Design and System
Engineering: How to size subsystems to meet flight performance
requirements. Structural design criteria factor of safety. Structure
concepts and manufacturing processes. Selecting airframe
materials. Loads prediction. Weight prediction. Airframe and motor
case design. Aerodynamic heating prediction and insulation trades.
Dome material alternatives and sizing. Power supply and actuator
alternatives and sizing.
5. Flight Performance Considerations in Missile Design
and System Engineering: Flight envelope limitations. Aerodynamic
sizing-equations of motion. Accuracy of simplified equations of
motion. Maximizing flight performance. Benefits of flight trajectory
shaping. Flight performance prediction of boost, climb, cruise, coast,
steady descent, ballistic, maneuvering, and homing flight.
6. Measures of Merit and Launch Platform Integration /
System Engineering: Achieving robustness in adverse weather.
Seeker, navigation, data link, and sensor alternatives. Seeker range
prediction. Counter-countermeasures. Warhead alternatives and
lethality prediction. Approaches to minimize collateral damage.
Fusing alternatives and requirements for fuze angle and time delay.
Alternative guidance laws. Proportional guidance accuracy
prediction. Time constant contributors and prediction.
Maneuverability design criteria. Radar cross section and infrared
signature prediction. Survivability considerations. Insensitive
munitions. Enhanced reliability. Cost drivers of schedule, weight,
learning curve, and parts count. EMD and production cost
prediction. Designing within launch platform constraints. Internal vs.
external carriage. Shipping, storage, carriage, launch, and
separation environment considerations. Launch platform interfaces.
Cold and solar environment temperature prediction.
7. Sizing Examples and Sizing Tools: Trade-offs for extended
range rocket. Sizing for enhanced maneuverability. Developing a
harmonized missile. Lofted range prediction. Ramjet missile sizing
for range robustness. Ramjet fuel alternatives. Ramjet velocity
control. Correction of turbojet thrust and specific impulse. Turbojet
missile sizing for maximum range. Turbojet engine rotational speed.
Computer aided sizing tools for conceptual design. Soda straw
rocket design-build-fly competition. House of quality process.
Design of experiment process.
8. Missile Development Process: Design
validation/technology development process. Developing a
technology roadmap. History of transformational technologies.
Funding emphasis. Alternative proposal win strategies. New missile
follow-on projections. Examples of development tests and facilities.
Example of technology demonstration flight envelope. Examples of
technology development. New technologies for missiles.
9. Summary and Lessons Learned.
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