US Army ARDEC, AMSTA-AR-PC, Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey 07806-5000

A -- DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF TECHNIQUES TO QUANTIFY HEATING AND GUN WEAR SOL DAAE30-98-R-0536 DUE 061298 POC Kathleen A. Sage, Purchasing Agent, (973) 724-7674 WEB: US ARMY TACOM-ARDEC Procurement Network, http://procnet.pica.army.mil/procacts.htm. E-MAIL: Kathleen A. Sage, ksage@pica.army.mil. The U.S. Army, TACOM-ARDEC, intends to award a firm fixed price purchase order, sole source, to Veritoy Technology, Inc., 4845 Millersport Highway, P.O. Box 305, East Amherst, NY 14051-0305. The 155mm XM232 Modular Artillery Charge System (MACS) design development requires access heating and gun wear characteristics. Gun tubes at ARDEC are currently machined and fitted with Veritoy's custom design thermal instrumentation to measure barrel heat. The techniques to quantify heating and gun wear involve the use of special diagnostic instrumentation such as thermocouples, intrusive temperature sensors, and sensors which can determine gun wear with a resolution of micro inches on the basis of a few (ten or less) gun shots. This instrumentation can provide a basis for initial assessment of heating and gun wear and screening of various approaches for alleviating the problems. The contractor shall determine and install the types of instrumentation to be used with a previously prepared 1400 cubic inch, 52 caliber, 155mm cannon tube, selected by ARDEC in which to conduct heat and gun wear tests. The contractor shall perform heat conduction analyses to characterize the gun barred temp distribution and estimates of gun wear profile. (Reference Notes 22 and 26) (0147)

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