Towards Standardization in Terminal Ballistics Testing: Velocity Representation

Abstract

An important phase of a prospective general procedural standardization of ballistic velocity testing and evaluation is considered. To accommodate relationships between striking and residual velocities, a basic form is developed from a natural generalization of existing theory and a numerical scheme for parameter determination is presented. Actual evaluation of relevant form parameters from given (vs, vr) data sets is afforded by an associated FORTRAN program which additionally incorporates a plot routine to provide graphic representation.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1976
Accession Number
ADA021389

Entities

People

  • G. H. Jonas
  • J. P. Lambert

Organizations

  • Ballistic Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Ballistics
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Data Sets
  • Energy
  • Geometry
  • Kinetic Energy
  • Plastic Explosives
  • Probability
  • Probability Distributions
  • Projectiles
  • Random Variables
  • Residuals
  • Standardization
  • Standards
  • Terminal Ballistics
  • Test And Evaluation

Readers

  • Computer Science.
  • Systems Analysis and Design
  • ballistics.