Accession Number:

AD0780759

Title:

Interaction of Copper-Containing Rotating Band Metal with Gun Bores at the Environment Present in a Gun Tube

Descriptive Note:

Technical rept.

Corporate Author:

WATERVLIET ARSENAL NY

Personal Author(s):

Report Date:

1974-06-01

Pagination or Media Count:

59.0

Abstract:

The nickel-based, cobalt-containing high temperature alloys now being considered for barrels for rapid-firing aircraft weapons could be seriously affected by interaction with copper-containing rotating band metal. Copper could interact with the bore metal at the high operating temperatures planned for the new alloy barrels with the formation of low-melting, easily-eroded surface layers. 4340 Steel, Pyromet X-15, C. G. 27, Rene 41, and Uidmet 700 were studied with sessile-drop experiments and firing experiments which simulated conditions in the bore of a rapid-firing gun. It was found that, although C. G. 27, Rene 41, and Uidmet 700 all interacted strongly with copper in sessile-drop experiments, only Rene 41 showed any interaction with copper alloy in the firing experiments.

Subject Categories:

  • Metallurgy and Metallography
  • Guns

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE