Engineering Model for Design of Explosive Fragmentation Munitions

Abstract

An engineering model for design of explosive fragmentation munitions presented in this work is based on integrating three-dimensional axisymmetric hydrocode analyses with analyses from a newly developed fragmentation computer code MOTT. The validation of the MOTT code fragmentation model was accomplished using the existing munition arena test data. After having established the crucial parameters of the model, a new explosive fragmentation munitions was designed and optimized. Upon fabrication of the developed munition, the performance of the new charge was tested in a series of small-scale experiments including the flash radiography, the high-speed photography, and the sawdust fragment recovery. Considering relative simplicity of the model, the accuracy of the MOTT code predictions is rather remarkable.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 2007
Accession Number
ADA462991

Entities

People

  • Vladimir M. Gold

Organizations

  • United States Army Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computers
  • Distribution Functions
  • Engineering
  • Equations
  • Explosive Charges
  • Explosives
  • Fabrication
  • Fragmentation
  • Geometry
  • High Speed Photography
  • Images
  • Materials
  • Munitions
  • Photographic Images
  • Photography
  • Shaped Charges
  • Three Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Explosive Engineering.