A review on the gun barrel vibrations and control for a main battle tank

Abstract Achieving high hitting accuracy for a main battle tank is challenging while the tank is on the move. This can be reached by proper design of a weapon control and gun system. In order to design an effective gun system while the tank is moving, better understanding of the dynamic behavior of the gun system is required. In this study, the dynamic behaviour of a gun system is discussed in this respect. Both experimental and numerical applications for the determination of the dynamic behaviour of a tank gun system are investigated. Methods such as the use of muzzle reference system (MRS) and vibration absorbers, and active vibration control technology for the control and the reduction of the muzzle tip deflections are also reviewed. For the existing gun systems without making substantial modifications, MRS could be useful in controlling the deflections of gun barrels with estimation/prediction algorithms. The vibration levels could be cut into half by the use of optimised vibration absorbers for an existing gun. A new gun system with a longer barrel can be as accurate as the one with a short barrel with the appropriate structural modifications.

[1]  A. Littlefield,et al.  120 mm Prestressed Carbon Fiber/Thermoplastic Overwrapped Gun Tubes , 2012 .

[2]  Jie Zhou,et al.  Research on Vibration Characteristics of Barrel Considered Gas Pressure , 2015 .

[3]  Yusuf Çay,et al.  Tip Deflection Determination of a Barrel for the Effect of an Accelerating Projectile Before Firing Using Finite Element and Artificial Neural Network Combined Algorithm , 2016 .

[4]  Victor V. Krylov,et al.  Calculation of ground vibration spectra from heavy military vehicles , 2010 .

[5]  Linfang Qian,et al.  Dynamic response analysis and active vibration control of flexible composite material barrel under a moving projectile , 2007, ICMIT: Mechatronics and Information Technology.

[6]  Y.D. Shi,et al.  Multi-body modeling and vibration analysis for gun , 2009, 2009 IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Intelligent Systems.

[7]  Eric L. Kathe.  Design of Passive Vibration Absorber to Reduce Terrain-Induced Gun Barrel Vibration in the Frequency Domain. , 1997 .

[8]  Dong Sheng Zhang,et al.  Study on Vibration Control of Gun Tube with Intelligent Structure , 2015 .

[9]  Jae-Sung Bae,et al.  Vibration Suppression of a Large Beam Structure Using Tuned Mass Damper and Eddy Current Damping , 2014 .

[10]  J. S. Bird.  Measurement of Tank Gun Dynamics in Support of a Dynamic Muzzle Referencing System , 1990 .

[11]  Peter L. McCall.  Measurements of gun tube motion and muzzle pointing error of main battle tanks , 2001 .

[12]  Eric Kathe,et al.  Dynamically tuned shroud for gun barrel vibration attenuation , 2002, SPIE Smart Structures and Materials + Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring.

[13]  Li Xu,et al.  Research of Characteristics of a Remote Control Weapon Station's Muzzle Vibration when Shooting on the Move , 2012 .

[14]  Eric Kathe.  Lessons learned on the application of vibration absorbers for enhanced cannon stabilization , 2001 .

[15]  Gautam Kumar,et al.  A study of a gun-turret assembly in an armored tank using model predictive control , 2009, 2009 American Control Conference.

[16]  Kenneth Olsen,et al.  GUN BARREL VIBRATION ABSORBER TO INCREASE ACCURACY , 2001 .

[17]  Mehmet Akif Koç,et al.  Dynamic response of a 120 mm smoothbore tank barrel during horizontal and inclined firing positions , 2015 .

[18]  V. R. Marcopeli,et al.  Robust Control Design for the Elevation Axis Stabilization of the M256E1 Long Gun , 2001 .

[19]  Chris LaVigna,et al.  Innovative active control of gun barrels using smart materials , 1997, Smart Structures.

[20]  J. W. Baugh,et al.  Dynamics of a Balloting Projectile in a Moving Gun Tube , 1988 .

[21]  Research on Analysis and Simulation of Random of the Machine Gun RCWS , 2012 .

[22]  Victor V. Krylov,et al.  Ground vibrations from tracked vehicles: theory and applications , 2011 .

[23]  Stefanovic Radoslav,et al.  複数サドル上に支持された埋設液体石油ガス貯槽の設計と解析(PVP2010-25052) , 2012 .

[24]  Wang De-shi.  Study on Vibration Characteristics of Barrel Subjected to Moving Projectile Considering Inertia Effect , 2011 .

[25]  Michael Ng,et al.  A methodology for characterizing gun barrel flexure due to vehicle motion , 2001 .

[26]  Nadeem Ahmed,et al.  Finite Element Modelling and Simulation of Gun Dynamics Using "ANSYS" , 2008, Tenth International Conference on Computer Modeling and Simulation (uksim 2008).

[27]  Ismail Esen,et al.  Optimization of a passive vibration absorber for a barrel using the genetic algorithm , 2015, Expert Syst. Appl..

[28]  J. S. Bird.  Some Applications of Kalman Filtering in Advanced Land Fire Control Systems , 1993 .