Dynamic Analysis and Optimal Design Formulation of a Weapon-Vehicle System

Abstract

A dynamic model of an automatic weapon-vehicle system is analyzed and formulated as an optimal design problem. The design concept adopted is to find the design parameters such that the gun barrel has a desirable property of least possible disturbance from a perturbation due to continuous bursts under uncertainty of environments such as road conditions and the azimuth angle. Thus, the optimal design problem becomes a 'parametric optimal design' problem with a system of highly nonlinear differential equations that describe the state of the system. A numerically implementable transcription is given such that the formulation fits into the finite dimensional parametric optimal design problem.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1974
Accession Number
AD0780918

Entities

People

  • B. M. Kwak
  • J. S. Arora
  • K. Rim

Organizations

  • University of Iowa

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Computational Science
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Differential Equations
  • Energy
  • Equations
  • Equations Of Motion
  • Geometry
  • Gun Barrels
  • Guns
  • Kinetic Energy
  • Nonlinear Differential Equations
  • Potential Energy
  • Recoil Mechanisms
  • Transient Response Analysis
  • Two Dimensional
  • Weapons

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Fluid Dynamics.
  • Operations Research
  • ballistics.