Abstract: In order to explore the mechanism of how bore damage leads to the decrease in firing accuracy and the rise in the ratio of elliptical shot holes, eventually leading to the end of a barrel life, the thermo-mechanical coupling finite element analysis (FEA) models of barrels with bore damage at 4 life stages, including undamaged barrel, middle-early life barrel, mid-life barrel, and end-of-life barrel，are established based on barrel life tests. Uniform design method is used to design the simulation test of interior ballistics process influenced by random factors of ammunition. The response values of muzzle disturbances of differently damaged barrels were acquired in the simulation test. The simulated results are in well agreement with the experimental data. The response surface equation for muzzle disturbance for taking ammunition random factors as independent variable and the rules of how ammunition random factors influence the muzzle disturbances of differently damaged barrels are obtained by using the partial least-squares regression method based on cubic B-spline curve and the uniform design-response surface method. The simulated and analyzed results show that the contribution of each ammunition random factor to the muzzle disturbances of differently damaged barrels is unequal. In order to reduce the muzzle disturbances of barrels in its later lifetime, the mass eccentricity of bullet and the initial yield strength of jacket material should be decreased, and the cylindrical diameter and charge weight should be moderate. Key

Key words: barrel, boredamage, muzzledisturbanceparameter, lifetest, uniformdesign-responsesurfacemethod