Development of a Drag Measurement System for the CERF 6-Foot Shock Tube.

Abstract

An instrumentation system was developed that permitted the direct measurement of drag forces on flat plates in a precursed and/or dusty shock tube flow environment. The system was designed for very high frequency response to track the rapid changes in the shock tube flow. A fully self-contained data acquisition unit with solid state memory was also designed and built for this application. The system was fielded in the CERF 6-foot Shock Tube at Kirtland AFB, NM.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 31, 1986
Accession Number
ADA173087

Entities

People

  • George H. Burghart

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter WMD
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Air Force
  • Boundary Layer
  • Classification
  • Data Acquisition
  • Dynamic Pressure
  • Frequency
  • Frequency Response
  • Instrumentation
  • Mach Number
  • Measurement
  • Models
  • Pressure Measurement
  • Security
  • Shock Tubes
  • Simulators
  • Standards

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Aerospace Test and Evaluation
  • Explosive Engineering.
  • Fluid Dynamics.