Quality Control of Continuously Produced Gun Propellant.

Abstract

The purpose of the subject program was to improve and optimize the Calspan artillery models. In particular, the models were examined and reformulated to include the Lennard-Jones G-12 potential as the equation of state and to use parameters generated by the BLAKE code as input. Other improvements were made and anomalies observed in previous calculations were eliminated. Comparisons between computer simulations and experimental results from an M2A2 105mm howitzer involving eight special lots were fair but some deviation exist. It is evident that code inputs and representation of burn rate require further improvement. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1977
Accession Number
ADA051827

Entities

People

  • Edward B. Fisher

Organizations

  • Calspan

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Burning Rate
  • Closed Bomb Tests
  • Combustion
  • Equations
  • Explosive Testing
  • Gun Chambers
  • Guns
  • Heat Transfer
  • Howitzers
  • Lepidoptera
  • Materials Science
  • Muzzle Velocity
  • Plastic Explosives
  • Propellant Grains
  • Propellants
  • Simulations
  • Solid Propellants

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Materials Science and Engineering.
  • ballistics.