Accession Number:
AD0372366
Title:
APPLICATION OF PURE FLUID TECHNOLOGY TO A NAVAL MISSILE WEAPON SYSTEM.
Descriptive Note:
Final rept. 15 Apr-15 Dec 65 on Phase 1,
Corporate Author:
BOWLES ENGINEERING CORP SILVER SPRING MD
Personal Author(s):
Report Date:
1965-12-01
Pagination or Media Count:
111.0
Abstract:
This Phase I Study Program has been directed toward an investigation of the feasibility and potential advantages of utilizing Pure Fluid components and subsystems in a Naval missile weapon system. Pure Fluid technology, relatively recent development in the controls field, incorporates a class of equipment known variously as fluid-state or fluidic devices to perform sensing, signal-processing and amplification, computation, actuation, and display. Such fluidic devices, using gas or liquid as the working medium and often featuring no-moving-parts operation, appear to offer a low-cost, reliable alternative to conventional electronic and electro-mechanical components in many applications. The overall goal of the Phase I Program has been to demonstrate that a practical weapon system can be realized using a Pure Fluid equipment approach. Specific program goals have included identifying those weapon system equipment areas for which a fluidic approach has promise and establishing the levels of cost and reliability improvement which the fluidic approach would yield over conventional electronic and electro-mechanical systems of comparable performance. Author
Descriptors:
- (*GUIDED MISSILES
- *GUIDANCE)
- (*FLUID AMPLIFIERS
- *CONTROL SYSTEMS)
- FEASIBILITY STUDIES
- INERTIAL NAVIGATION
- INSTRUMENTATION
- INERTIAL GUIDANCE
- GYROSCOPES
- FLUID MECHANICS
- COSTS
- RELIABILITY
- DISPLAY SYSTEMS
- DATA PROCESSING
- ACTUATORS
- FLUIDS
- SHIPBOARD (U) STABILIZED PLATFORMS
- HYDRAULIC EQUIPMENT
- VISCOSIMETERS
- DESTROYERS
- DESTROYER ESCORTS
- SHIP DECKS
- EXTERNAL STORES
Subject Categories:
- Guided Missiles