New 100 mm Gun Assembly Installation at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory High Explosives Applications Facility
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Source
- Conference: Presented at: Meeting of the 54th Aeroballistic Range Association, Santa Fe, NM, United States, Oct 19 - Oct 24, 2003
- Subject
- 42 ENGINEERING
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE
75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY ALIGNMENT
ALLOYS
CHEMICAL EXPLOSIVES
DESIGN
FORAGE
LASERS
LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY
TARGETS
TESTING
- Language
- English
A new 100mm gun assembly was recently installed and tested at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories located in the High Explosives Applications Facility (HEAF). Thiot Ingenierie performed the design of the replacement barrel, based on improvements to the initial design. This design incorporated barrel and breech sections forged from CLARM series high-strength alloys obtained from Tecphy Corporation and machined by Manufacture de Forage. Part of the improvement of the design was implementing a laser alignment system for quick and accurate barrel alignment checks. This laser is also used to align the target assembly. This paper will detail the design changes incorporated into the installation, the testing process, and future direction of research for the new gun.