Abstract
The AMMRC ballistic compressor is described as an instrument capable of adiabatically compressing gases to temperatures of several thousand Kelvins and pressures of several thousand atmospheres for a time of a fraction of a millisecond. Problems of measuring the gas conditions and its equations of state are discussed. Application to gun barrel erosion/corrosion is discussed through the example of various nitrogen/argon test gas experiments on 4340 steel. An interesting feature of an apparent melt and redeposit process in the formation of carbon containing nodules on the surface.
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G. T. Lalos and G. L. Hammond, “The Ballistic Compressor and High Temperature Properties of Dense Gases,” Chapter 25 pp. 1193–1218 in “Experimental Thermodynamics, Volume II, Experimental Thermodynamics of Non-reacting Fluids” Edited by B. Le Neindre and B. Vodar: Butterworths, London, (1975).
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Jennings, L.D., Lin, S., Marotta, A.S. (1986). Material Degradation Under Pulsed High Temperature and High Pressure. In: McCauley, J.W., Weiss, V. (eds) Materials Characterization for Systems Performance and Reliability. Sagamore Army Materials Research Conference Proceedings, vol 26. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2119-4_31
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