Cover Image

Ballistics theory and design and ammunition

With new chapters, homework problems, case studies, figures, and examples, Ballistics: Theory and Design of Guns and Ammunition, Third Edition encourages superior design and innovative applications in the field of ballistics. It examines the analytical and computational tools for predicting a weapon...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Carlucci, Donald E. (Author), Jacobson, Sidney S. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boca Raton, FL Taylor & Francis 2018
Edition:Third edition
Subjects:
Ballistics
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introductory concepts
  • 2. Physical foundation of interior ballistics
  • 3. Analytic and computational ballistics
  • 4. Ammunition design practice
  • 5. Weapon design practice
  • 6. Recoil arresting and recoilless guns
  • Section II Exterior Ballistics
  • 7. Introductory concepts
  • 8. Dynamics review
  • 9. Trajectories
  • 10. Linearized aeroballistics
  • 11. Mass asymmetries
  • 12. Lateral throwoff
  • 13. Swerve motion
  • 14. Nonlinear aeroballistics
  • Section III Terminal Ballistics
  • 15. Introductory concepts
  • 16. Penetration theories
  • 17. Penetration of homogeneous, ductile chromium-Nickel Steel Naval Armor by three representative designs of nondeforming hardened steel armor-piercing projectiles with bare noses
  • 18. Shock physics
  • 19. Introduction to explosive effects
  • 20. Shaped charges
  • 21. Wound ballistics.

Similar Items