Reinforced Metal Structural Jackets for Advanced Gun Barrels

Abstract

High performance reinforced metals are being developed that have a series of desirable properties for gun barrel structural jacket applications. The two materials of interest are reinforced aluminum and reinforced titanium. Both of these materials possess very high strength, high fatigue resistance, high temperature resistance, and low density. Ongoing work to apply these promising materials to high performance gun barrels includes diffusion bonding to specified liners, material characterization, development of appropriate gun modeling tools, autofrettage/prestressing parameter development, and dynamic analysis of performance in the composite structure. This paper discusses ongoing work to integrate these materials into large caliber gun barrels.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 26, 2001
Accession Number
ADP012476

Entities

People

  • Craig Dampier
  • Eric Pennell
  • Horst Gigerenzer
  • James M. Burnett

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Ceramic Materials
  • Composite Materials
  • Fabrication
  • Gun Barrels
  • Heat Flux
  • Heat Transfer
  • High Temperature
  • Internal Pressure
  • Manufacturing
  • Materials
  • Materials Science
  • Mechanical Working
  • Metal Matrix Composites
  • Moment Of Inertia
  • Plastic Deformation
  • Silicon Carbide
  • Thermal Conductivity

Readers

  • Metallurgy
  • Petroleum Engineering
  • Structural Health Monitoring of Composite Structures.