A HIGH-PRESSURE LIGHT-GAS GUN

Abstract

A new single-stage, high-pressure, stainless steel, light-gas gun 30 ft long with a 1 3/8-in. bore has been designed and built at DOFL. This gun has driven a 6-gm mass at velocities above 5000 fps. With alterations made to heat the driver section, it is expected to give velocities of over 8000 fps and make possible impact shock pressures of more than 1-megabar. A comparison of the measured and computed projectile velocities at room temperature as well as higher temperatures is included.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 26, 1961
Accession Number
AD0261592

Entities

People

  • Leon Horn

Organizations

  • Harry Diamond Laboratories

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Explosives
  • Gas Guns
  • Guns
  • High Pressure
  • Light Gas Guns
  • Materials
  • Munitions
  • New Jersey
  • Projectiles
  • Pumps
  • Reinforced Concrete
  • Shock
  • Shock Waves
  • Skeletal Muscle
  • Solenoid Valves
  • Vacuum
  • Vacuum Pumps

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Aerospace Test and Evaluation
  • Combustion Dynamics and Shock Wave Physics.
  • Fluid Dynamics.