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A simple transducer for detecting projectiles in gun barrels

Technical note describes a strain-gaged hose clamp used to detect projectiles during firing in order to synchronize other instrumentation

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Strain gages were cemented on an adjustable hose clamp. The strain-gaged hose clamp was used as a simple transducer on gun barrels to detect projectiles during firing in order to synchronize other instrumentation, such as high-speed flash X rays and a pulsed-laser holographic camera, with a reproducibility of the order of one microsecond.

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  1. Pitman-Dunn Laboratory, Frankford Arsenal, 19137, Philadelphia, PA

    P. D. Flynn, J. T. Gilbert & E. A. Webster Jr.

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Flynn, P.D., Gilbert, J.T. & Webster, E.A. A simple transducer for detecting projectiles in gun barrels. Experimental Mechanics 13, 350–352 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02322396

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