A Kind Of Smooth Bore Gun Tube Design

This paper focuses on design of smooth bore gun tube according to the interior ballistics data. The main contents are included as follows: The first, theory and principle about the barrel component and the design of gun tube are discussed. Interior ballistics curves, chamber requirements, bore, rifling, temperature distribution, design pressure, strength requirements, equivalent stress, pressure stresses, shrinkage stresses, thermal stresses, special applications for artillery tube analyses, gun tube material and manufacturing procedures are briefly discussed in this section. The second, calculation and construction of gun tube design according to the interior ballistics data are submitted. The third, solid model of gun tube is constructed according to the calculated data and finite element model analysis is done by I-DEAS engineering simulation software. After modeling and analyzing, these results are analyzed in detail, especially for the strength requirement of gun tube.