학술논문

Dynamic stress analysis of anisotropic gun barrel under coupled thermo-mechanical loads via finite element method
Document Type
article
Source
Latin American Journal of Solids and Structures. January 2020 17(1)
Subject
30SiMn2MoVA steel
anisotropic gun barrel
stress response
coupled thermo-mechanical loads
copper jacket and steel jacket projectile
thermal load and pressure of propellant gas
Language
English
ISSN
1679-7825
Abstract
This work focused on the stress response of anisotropic 30SiMn2MoVA steel gun barrel under coupled thermo-mechanical loads, namely, the contact pressure and friction of projectile, thermal load and pressure of propellant gas. The effect of temperature on the mechanical properties of gun barrel was considered. Two thermal-displacement coupled finite element models (FEM) were built by ABAQUS software. The first was the interaction model of projectile and barrel which was to calculate the stress of barrel engraved by copper jacket and steel jacket projectile. The results of barrel in the interaction model, as an initial condition, were imported to the second FEM which was applied with thermal load and pressure of propellant gas. The results show that the rifling at chamber throat has the largest stress and circumferential stress under coupled loads. It gives a request that the gun barrel should have the better circumferential mechanical properties. The plastic deformation of the rifling at the chamber throat is observed which indicates that 30SiMn2MoVA gun barrel has a low service life due to the poor mechanical properties.