OPTIMAL WEAPON STABILITY BY A STEEPEST-DESCENT METHOD

Abstract

The problem treated falls into the rapidly developing field of optimal design. The design requirements stipulate that a weapon system is to perform some task at some index of performance. The objective of this study is to apply a relatively new steepest-descent procedure to an artillery design problem which involves the dynamic behavior of a 105mm howitzer which is fired while resting on rubber tires, and determine the design parameters such that the pitch motion of the weapon is minimum at high angle fire. Thus, the weapon will not only perform its task, but will also have maximum performance (in this case, stability).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1969
Accession Number
AD0692302

Entities

People

  • T. D. Streeter

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artillery
  • Boundaries
  • Computational Science
  • Control Rods
  • Differential Equations
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Equations
  • Equations Of Motion
  • Howitzers
  • Mathematical Models
  • Optimization
  • Recoil
  • Recoil Mechanisms
  • Steepest Descent Method
  • Weapon Systems
  • Weapons

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  • Marksmanship and Weaponry.
  • Robotics and Automation.
  • Systems Analysis and Design