To explain the paradox between the experimental and theoretical results of equivalent full charge (EFC) conversion coefficient, which can be used to convert the number of firing under various firing conditions to the number of EFC firing, a computational method of that coefficient is investigated on the basis of the thermo-chemical erosion model of the barrel. Supposing that the thickness and composition of the white layer on the inner wall of barrel change periodically after several firings, the relationship among the thermo-chemical erosion volume at the beginning of the rifling and the erosivity of the propellant and the transient temperature field of the inner layer of the barrel is established with the help of the mass diffusion law. During the firing process, the gas temperature in the space behind the projectile and the forced convection coefficient at the innerwall surface of barrel are provided by the classical interior ballistic theory. Hereafter, the model to calculate the transient temperature of the barrel can be developed. In addition, the effect of gas with relative high temperature during the after-effect period is also considered. Eventually, focusing on the firing rate, the charge mass and the charge temperature which have an essential effect on the interior ballistic process, erosion volumes under different firing rates, charge numbers and charge temperatures are calculated. Accordingly, the EFC conversion coefficients under various firing conditions are obtained. It is found that a more severe erosion of the barrel is often related to a faster firing rate, a more charge mass and a higher charge temperature.The EFC coefficient of the supercharge is up to 2.131. The reasonability of the proposed model is verified by using the practical firing data of a 155mm barrel.
To study the mechanical mechanism and motion law of the high speed impact engraving process of cased telescoped ammunition, the physical and mathematical interior ballistic models were analyzed and established with a 40mm caliber CTA gun as the research object, and the interior ballistic model was verified by live fire experiments. Considering the friction and contact characteristics between the interfaces, a high-speed impact engraving model was built by the FEM-SPH coupling algorithm, and the numerical solution of the interior ballistics was used as the boundary condition to obtain the change laws of the deformation of the rotating band, projectile motion, projectile attitude and engraving resistance by numerical calculations. The results showed that: the established ballistic model is accurate and reasonable; the initial velocity of the projectile at the bore was 78.2m/s; the entire engraving process can be divided into the decelerating and accelerating phases, and the projectile was in the quasi-static state between the two phases; during the decelerating engraving process, the projectile attitude changed periodically, and the amplitude of the oscillation angle decreased continuously; the oscillation angle increased rapidly during the accelerating engraving process; as the engraving was completed, the oscillation angle showed a decreasing trend; the engraving time was 2.65 ms and the projectile velocity was 73.92 m/s at the completion of engraving; the surface temperature of the rotating band during the engraving process was close to the melting point of the material; there were two "rise - fall" processes in the dynamic engraving resistance with the maximum engraving resistance of 95.288 kN, and the resistance decreased and stabilized at 10 kN at the moment of fully engraving.
This study aims to analyze the kinematic accuracy reliability of a swing mechanism with an automatic loading system and calculate the reliability sensitivity of dimension parameters. A kinematical model of the swing mechanism is thus established. Considering the influence of dimension error of the swing mechanism and joint clearance, the first four statistical moments are obtained by using the spare grid numerical integration method, and the probability density function of the kinematic response variable is obtained using the saddle point estimation method. The kinematic accuracy reliability of the swing mechanism with the automatic loading system is then calculated, and the reliability sensitivity analysis of dimension parameters is performed based on the results. The simulation results show that the calculation results in the study are identical to those acquired using the Monte Carlo method while requiring fewer sample points. The effectiveness of the methods in the paper is verified, and there is less failure probability of the swing mechanism kinematic accuracy, indicating high reliability in kinematic accuracy. The reliability sensitivity analysis of the dimension parameters reveals that the length of the driving arm has a larger influence on the kinematic reliability, while the other parameters have less influence. This provides references for the reliability-based design of the swing mechanism.
The shock wave overpressure acting on the surface of crew compartment during artillery firing is a key boundary condition for studying the protective performance of vehicle-mounted howitzer’s crew compartment against muzzle shock wave. To explore the characteristics of muzzle shock wave overpressure on the surface of crew compartment, a systematic firing experiment plan is designed for a specific equipment. The experiments cover both the main and auxiliary firing sectors of vehicle-mounted howitzer, capturing the overpressure data of the shockwaves at different positions on the crew compartment under seven firing angle conditions. The attenuation patterns of shock wave overpressure on the crew compartment surface at various spatial locations relative to the muzzle and crew compartment were obtained through experiment. A computational model of muzzle blast flow field is established using the unsteady three-dimensional inviscid Euler equations. Simulation and numerical analysis are performed to evaluate the shock wave overpressure on the crew compartment surface under extreme conditions.The simulated results show good agreement with the experimental data in terms of the change trend of shock wave overpressure, with a peak overpressure error of less than 4% when the muzzle airflow velocity is properly considered. The research results indicate that the muzzle shock wave influenced by the ground and the structure of crew compartment, forms a secondary overpressure distribution with obvious peaks on the surface of vehicle-mounted howitzer’s crew compartment. Factors such as the orientation of muzzle brake vents and the raised structures on the crew compartment contribute to a more severe muzzle shock wave overpressure on the surface of crew compartment.
The two-stage ignition and firing process of cased telescoped ammunition is experimentally researched to analyze the burning characteristics of charge and the movement characteristics of loadng and engraving. A high-speed camera system is used to capture the motion image sequences of every projectile group, and a test system for the procedural burning characteristics is devised and assembled. Based on the principle of digital image correlation, the image sequences are qualitatively and quantitatively analyzed, and the grooved morphology of the recovered band is analyzed and measured, so as to obtain the movement characteristics of projectile for one-stage ignition, the procedural burning characteristics for two-stage ignition, and the grooved morphology of the band. The findings demonstrate that the mass of fast-burning powder directly affects the loading performance of the first-stage ignition projectile. The loading time of projectile is significantly shortened and the loading speed is greatly increased when the mass of fast-burning ignition powder is increased. The premature fragmentation of combustible guide tube leads to a significant increase in the loading speed, resulting in a very poor band grooved morphology, which does not reliably seal the rear powder gas and steer the projectile motion, thus affecting the interior ballistic trajectory performance and the in-bore motion attitude of projectile. The reasonable matching design of fast-burning ignition powder and combustible guide tube can keep the break-up timing of combustible guide tube in a controllable range, so as to realize the ideal two-stage ignition and procedural burning design objectives.
To solve the problem of fault diagnosis of the modular charge feeding mechanism under multiple working conditions, a fault diagnosis method based on transfer learning and singular value decomposition (SVD) was proposed. SVD was used for dimensionality reduction and noise reduction as means of preprocessing of the modular charge velocity data and for feature extraction. The transfer learning method based on the TrAdaBoost algorithm framework was adopted to synthesize limited test data and a large amount of simulation data to extract effective fault information. In the information, multiple base fault classifiers were built and integrated into a high-quality fault classifier. The experimental results showed that the proposed method has good adaptability to the fault data under multiple working conditions, which can obtain better diagnosis accuracy compared to the traditional machine learning strategy in the case of limited test data.
Based on the existing researches on quasi-continuous algorithm, a novel improved quasi-continuous controller is designed to improve the precision and robustness of rotational shell magazine position control in the automatic loading process of a large caliber artillery.By combining a sliding mode disturbance observer, the novel controller is independent of the unknown system uncertainty boundary, and no new parameters are introduced, which will lower the difficulties of controller designing and adjusting.The stabilities of controller and close-loop scheme are verified by Lyapunov functions. The simulated and experimental results have demonstrated the superiority of the improved controller over the existing quasi-continuous algorithm.In the presence of unknown time-varying disturbance and uncertain parameters, the improved controller could achieve a higher convergence rate in reaching phase, reduce the overshoot and restrain chattering in sliding phase while performed on the magazine.