APPLICATION OF PURE FLUID TECHNOLOGY TO A NAVAL MISSILE WEAPON SYSTEM.
Abstract
This Phase I Study Program has been directed toward an investigation of the feasibility and potential advantages of utilizing Pure Fluid components and subsystems in a Naval missile weapon system. Pure Fluid technology, relatively recent development in the controls field, incorporates a class of equipment known variously as fluid-state or fluidic devices to perform sensing, signal-processing and amplification, computation, actuation, and display. Such fluidic devices, using gas or liquid as the working medium and often featuring no-moving-parts operation, appear to offer a low-cost, reliable alternative to conventional electronic and electro-mechanical components in many applications. The overall goal of the Phase I Program has been to demonstrate that a practical weapon system can be realized using a Pure Fluid equipment approach. Specific program goals have included identifying those weapon system equipment areas for which a fluidic approach has promise and establishing the levels of cost and reliability improvement which the fluidic approach would yield over conventional electronic and electro-mechanical systems of comparable performance. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Dec 01, 1965
- Accession Number
- AD0372366
Entities
People
- Peter Bauer