Austin, USA: Institute for Advanced Technology, 2002. – 537 p.This volume contains the papers presented at the 10th U.S. Army Gun Dynamics Symposium held in Austin, Texas on April 23-26, 2001. The contents of this volume, as well as the invited talks, are also published in an accompanying CD-ROM.
Initiated in 1976, the biennial Gun Dynamics Symposium has been providing a forum for discussion of applied research and engineering solutions in collective disciplines of structural dynamics, interior ballistics, exterior ballistics, advanced materials, and multidisciplinary design optimization for highperformance cannon weaponry. In this 10th Symposium, the technical committee has expanded the scope of the meeting and integrated electromagnetic gun discussions with conventional weapons systems and, for the first time, implemented a peer review process. Each technical paper in this volume has undergone peer review by experts in their respective fields of research. A special note of thanks goes to the members of the technical committee for supporting and enabling these changes. The authors are commended for keeping to the schedule imposed by the review process.
The 10th Gun Dynamics Symposium was attended by 114 scientists and engineers representing the United States and the European countries. The Institute for Advanced Technology (IAT) hosted this symposium under the sponsorship of the Benet Laboratories of TACOM-ARDEC. Mr. Eric Kathe (TACOM-ARDEC Benet Laboratories) was the Symposium Chairman; and Dr. Mehmet E. Erengil (IAT) and Dr. Peter Plostins (Army Research Laboratory, ARL) were the Technical Chairmen. The technical agenda included 39 oral presentations and 13 poster presentations. A series of invited speakers discussed a broad spectrum of relevant topics including research and development efforts and engineering applications in both U.S. and European programs.
