Health Monitoring of Munitions
Abstract
The author presents a modern approach to reach these goals of accuracy with a low error rate. The United States has a vast array of weapons that spend most of all of their life in storage. Then upon removal from storage are expected of performing with high reliability of their designers. Weapons are made, procured, tracked, used and destroyed in lots. Lot sizes are statically chosen to posses certain characteristics. Periodically during the life of a lot of weapons sample is randomly selected for detail destructive analysis. If it fails test requirements the entire lot may have to be modified or destroyed. Once the lot has been identified all its members have to be located for the appropriate action. When weapons leave the factory they are identical and have known life expectancies. It is known that a variety of environmental factors (temperature, humidity, shock, vibration, etc. affect the weapons' condition and ultimate life expectancies. The older a weapon is the more possible variation in storage condition exist and hence variation in its life expectancies. If individual storage environments could be tracked individual life expectancies could be determined. Weapons reaching near end-of-life could be designated for training and save the cost of de-milling.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Feb 01, 2004
- Accession Number
- ADA425181
Entities
People
- Paul J. Smith
Organizations
- Naval Surface Warfare Center Indian Head Division