Fuze Gear-Train Analysis

Abstract

This report documents the development of tools needed to compare the efficiency of fuze-related gear trains designed to operate in a spin environment. Computer models have been developed for two and three pass step-up designs with clock (ogival) and involute tooth shapes. Using appropriate moment input-output relationships, the computer programs develop point and cycle efficiency for each type of gear train. Pivot friction partially caused by centrifugal force on the gear and pinion combinations during spin, and tooth-to-tooth contact friction are considered. All models allow a variety of parameter variations.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1979
Accession Number
ADB043539

Entities

People

  • F. R. Tepper
  • G. C. Lowen

Organizations

  • United States Army Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center

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Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

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  • Birds
  • Centrifugal Force
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  • Computers
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  • Equations
  • Gear Teeth
  • Geometry
  • Kinematics
  • Mechanics
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  • Simulations
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  • Test And Evaluation

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  • Computer Science.
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