A Reliability Test Procedure for Prototype Small Caliber Arms

Abstract

The purpose of this research report is to find a suitable test procedure for determining the reliability of prototype small caliber arms submitted to the U.S. Army by private contractors for engineering design tests. In finding a solution, present reliability testing procedures are researched, and a suitable procedure is developed. The developed procedure is limited by its underlying assumptions that there are three independent modes of failure, and the number of rounds between each type of failure has an underlying exponential distribution. Areas of future research and development are suggested, and recommended changes in present Army prototype small caliber arms testing techniques are made.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1974
Accession Number
ADA007093

Entities

People

  • Carl S. Royer

Organizations

  • United States Army Materiel Command

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Confidence Limits
  • Contracts
  • Data Science
  • Electronic Equipment
  • Failure Mode And Effect Analysis
  • Information Science
  • Life Tests
  • Maintenance
  • Plastic Explosives
  • Probability
  • Probability Distributions
  • Quality Control
  • Random Variables
  • Statistics
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Test Methods
  • Weapon Systems

Readers

  • Munitions and Ordnance Engineering
  • Software Engineering
  • Statistical inference.