ENGINEERING DESIGN HANDBOOK. DESIGN FOR CONTROL OF PROJECTILE FLIGHT CHARACTERISTICS.

Abstract

This handbook presents a general survey of the principal factors affecting the flight of projectiles, and describes the methods commonly used for predicting and influencing the flight performance. The coefficients which characterize the aerodynamic forces and moments of a moving body are identified, methods for determining the coefficients applicable to a projectile having a given shape and center of gravity location are described, and the coefficients of a number of projectiles and projectile shapes are given. The use of aerodynamic coefficients in predicting stability, range and accuracy is described. The effects of variations in projectile shape and center of gravity location on range, accuracy and lethality are discussed. Some material on prototype testing and the effects of round-to-round variations in production lots is presented.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1966
Accession Number
AD0801509

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Army Materiel Command

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Boundary Layer
  • Computational Science
  • Explosives
  • Fire Control Systems
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Geometry
  • Material Degradation Processes
  • Materials Laboratories
  • Materials Processing
  • Materials Science
  • Munitions
  • Ordnance Laboratories
  • Projectile Trajectories
  • Propelling Charges
  • Rocket Engines
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Weapon Control

Fields of Study

  • Physics

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  • Control Systems Engineering.
  • ballistics.