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Ballistics : theory and design of guns and ammunition /

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"Ballistics examines the analytical and computational tools for predicting a weapon's behavior in terms of pressure, stress, and velocity, demonstrating their applications in ammunition and weapons design. It includes updated and revised equations, end-of-chapter problems, case studies, an...

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Main Authors: Carlucci, Donald E. (Author), Jacobson, Sidney S. (Author)
Corporate Author: Taylor & Francis
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boca Raton FL : CRC Press, 2025.
Edition:Fourth edition.
Subjects:
Ballistics.
Balistique.
ballistics.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introductory concepts
  • Physical foundation of interior ballistics
  • Analytic and computational ballistics
  • Ammunition design practice
  • Weapon design practice
  • Recoil arresting and recoilless guns
  • Closed bomb experimentation and analysis
  • Introductory concepts
  • Dynamics review
  • Trajectories
  • Linearized aeroballistics
  • Mass asymmetries
  • Lateral throwoff
  • Swerve motion
  • Nonlinear aeroballistics
  • Introductory concepts
  • Penetration theories
  • Penetration of homogeneous, ductile chromium-nickel steel naval armor by three representative designs of nondeforming hardened steel
  • Shock physics
  • Introduction to explosive effects
  • Shaped charges
  • Wound ballistics.