Abstract
Abstract
Hundreds or thousands of projectiles have been fired through a gun barrel. Catastrophic fatigue failure of gun barrel due to cyclic loadings by the stresses induced by the combination of high pressure and temperature combustion gas, and projectile with the rotating band interaction with the bore surface, has not yet been understood. In this paper, laboratory hydraulic fatigue tests on simulated gun barrel were performed on MTS Land. The experimental results show that there is an inherent relation between crack propagation in thick-walled tube and the external surface hoop and axial strains. This fact suggests that fatigue failure of gun barrel should be likely prevented by monitoring the external surface strains of the gun barrel and stopping continued firing before a major crack growing up to the critical size.
Subject
General Physics and Astronomy
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