There must be some sort of guidance out there.
There is an o-ring seal between the combustion chamber and injector plate. The OD of that o-ring is 2.637" and the chamber pressure at maximum engine capacity is 500-psig. That will equate to about 2750-lbs of force pushing those two plates apart...
Thanks for your reply. Your questions are all things I have thought about as well and this is what I can answer.
1. Pure tear-out tensile. There should not be any shear.
2. The surfaces will be flat and very smooth because there will be o-rings involved to keep the combustion gases where they...
I am a retired scientist and off/on for many years I planned to build a small liquid fuel rocket engine. My son recently got me interested again so I am back working on the project. This engine will never leave the ground. It is for fun and also for my son and I to learn many new things along...