A Unique Optical System Design and Implementation of X- Ray system to Non-destructive Tests Solid Fuel missiles

One of the most important military applications in missile science is the careful X-ray examination (XRE) of solid rocket fuel samples. So that it becomes clear whether the missile fuel is made efficiently and achieves its goal or not, which is a regular combustion rate from the moment of launch to the end of its flight. The main dependency of this is to provide expenses for the real launch of missiles to ensure the work of the solid fuel that has been manufactured. In this paper, we review a visual diagnostic system with X-rays for solid fuel samples (SFS) before starting the field tests to detect manufacturing defects. An optimal design of the X-ray device was made in terms of transmission and the radiation collection system to focus it on the sample to be tested and to choose the most appropriate X-ray detector for this purpose. The metal casing of the X-ray tube (XRT), the collimator, and the mechanical equipment of the entire system were also designed and implemented, with the assembly of parts and components of the X-ray camera. The system was tested on two real samples. The first is made efficiently and does not have any manufacturing defects, while the other has air bubbles. The proposed system succeeded in giving accurate images for both samples. This made evaluating fuel performance possible without costly field experiments.