AMCP 706-244, AMC PAMPHLET: ENGINEERING DESIGN HANDBOOK - AMMUNITION SERIES (SECTION 1) ARTILLRY AMMUNITION -- GENERAL (SEP-1963)

AMCP 706-244, AMC PAMPHLET: ENGINEERING DESIGN HANDBOOK - AMMUNITION SERIES (SECTION 1) ARTILLRY AMMUNITION -- GENERAL (SEP-1963)., The ARTILLERY AMMUNITION SERIES is being issued as an interim publication of the Ordnance Engineering Design Handbook, a comprehensive sequence of publications planned to treat the entire field of Ordnance design. When the Handbook was begun it was found to be impractical to integrate into it the series relating to Artillery Ammunition already in preparation under the direction of Picatinny Arsenal. Although they were similar, the objectives of the two projects were not identical. The subject breakdown adopted for the Handbook would have necessitated redistribution of the material of this series throughout several of the planned volumes of the Handbook, with consequent delay in publication of much of the material. It was therefore decided to issue this material intact as an interim publication to make it available as early as possible. The material appearing in this series will be gradually superseded as pertinent volumes of the Ordnance Engineering Design Handbook become available. This series is a compilation of available data on the design of artillery ammunition. It is intended to introduce the graduate engineer to the art of ammunition design and to serve as a ready reference for the practicing artillery ammunition designer. Information contained in these publications has been obtained from development reports and drawings of ammunition items, from proof firing records, and from research reports by United States and British government agencies. The information obtained from these sources was corroborated and supplemented by means of direct interviews and correspondence with personnel of U. S. government and private research and design agencies. This series consists of six sections. Section 1 is an introduction to the general subject of ammunition and its design. It is primarily intended to familiarize newcomers to the field with the nomenclature and classification of ammunition items. For convenience in publication, the features applying to the entire series, such as Table of Contents, Glossary and Index, have been bound with Section 1. Section 2 is concerned with terminal ballistics, or the production of effect by the various types of ammunition. Section 3 deals with the control of flight, and exterior ballistic design of both fin-stabilized and spin-stabilized rounds. Section 4, on design for projection of ammunition, includes the design of propellants for desired interior ballistic characteristics, stress analysis, and the design of cartridge case, gun chamber, and rifling and rotating bands. Section 5 describes the inspection aspects of artillery ammunition design. It is included to acquaint the designer with dimensioning practices and the nature of the limitations placed on design by the requirements of gaging and quality control. Section 6, on manufacturing methods, has been included to give the neophyte designer some insight into the overall problem of the manufacture of metal parts of ammunition items, since methods of manufacture impose limitations upon the design of such items.