DTIC ADA175401: Ballistic Simulator Shock Testing of Armament Compo... | |
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In this project, ARDEC completed the development and | |
testing of a 155-mm gas gun ballistic simulation system | |
initially designed and constructed by Frankford Arsenal. | |
The goal of the project was to provide a cost effective | |
alternate to live explosive gun firings through | |
simulation of high-g impulse shock in a laboratory | |
environment. The two tasks were: (1) development of a | |
lightweight digital memory module (DMM) that would | |
operate in high-g ballistic shock environment, and (2) | |
establishment and documentation of the characteristics of | |
the gas gun simulator with the DMM. A multichannel DMM | |
using basic digital design, implemented by state-of-the- | |
art electronic components, was successfully developed. | |
The newly developed DMM was used to acquire setback and | |
tangential acceleration data for more than 50 test | |
firings. The performance characteristics and range | |
(acceleration amplitude and duration) of the simulator as | |
a function of extremes in metering hole patterns was | |
established. The acceleration amplitudes and durations | |
generated by the simulator can be varied within its | |
operational range to provide good simulations of gun fire | |
shock parameters which are not otherwise reproducible in | |
a laboratory facility. The order of magnitude increase in | |
duration over diaphragm-type air guns, plus its spin | |
capability, makes the simulator useful for a variety of | |
applications in which conventional diaphragm-type air | |
guns are unsatisfactory. | |
Date Published: 2018-02-12 07:47:10 | |
Identifier: DTIC_ADA175401 | |
Item Size: 24119297 | |
Language: english | |
Media Type: texts | |
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