• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.41 no.10
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• pp.796-804
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• 2013

The "Potato Gun," a simple heat engine, is fabricated, tested and analyzed as a part of engineering education program of combustion and propulsion classes. Combustor pressure is predicted by the chemical equilibrium analysis of a constant volume combustor. Then, the internal ballistics, the conversion of thermal energy into the mechanical energy of a projectile, is predicted though the expansion process. The trajectory of a projectile is estimated by considering the aerodynamic effect around the spherical projectile. The energy conversion efficiency and the equivalence ratio of the fuel-air mixture could be estimated by the comparison of the experimental results and the theoretical prediction. The present work would be an example of attracting the interest of students for the application of the engineering principles at undergraduate level by recycling the waste materials.

• Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.127-134
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• 1978

탄도충격에 의하여 파괴된 단결정 alumina의 파면조직을 광학 및 투과 전자현미경으로 연구 분석하였다. 파면의 주된 파괴 양상은 결정 입개면의 분리 또는 결정입내 파괴로 구성되어 있고 이러한 파괴과정은 복잡한 cleavage 양상과 결정입자 내에서의 소성변형을 수반하고 있다. 미세조직 관찰 결과에 의하면 alumina ceramics의 충격 파괴과정에서 에너지의 흡수가 국부적인 소성변형으로 나타나고 있음을 알 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.43 no.3
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• pp.187-194
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• 2015

Course correction munition is a smart projectile which improves its accuracy by the control mechanism equipped in the fuze section with canard. In this paper, various aerodynamic configurations of the fuze section were analysed by utilizing a semi-empirical method and a CFD method. A final canard configuration showing the least drag was then determined. During the CFD simulation, it was found that the k-${\omega}$ SST turbulence model combined with O-type grid base is suitable for the prediction of the base drag. Finally, the aerodynamic characteristics of the smart munition and the change of drag due to the canard installation were analysed.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.35 no.6
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• pp.411-418
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• 2016

In this paper, we developed a new method estimating the location of ballistic missile launching using infrasound signals. Infrasound signal generated from the North Korea's ballistic missile launch was used as source data and its signal was recorded at KMA (Korea Meteorological Administration) infrasound stations located at Cheorwon and Yanggu. Time-frequency analysis, TDOA (Time Delay of Arrival) method and spherical trigonometry were applied for data processing of signal recorded and occurrence location detection. We could confirm the outstanding performance of the algorithm estimating source location which was only 3 km apart from the actual launching site.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.5-13
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• 2007

The trajectory of an current artillery munition is subject to a variety of different error sources resulting in more or less big deviation from the nominal predicted flight path. The 1D CCM(Course Correction Munition) has appeared to solve this problem and the mechanism of 1D CCM is a simple and low cost one using the influence of drag to range behavior of an artillery munition. In the paper 1D CCM concept has been simulated using wind tunnel experiment results of the specified Korean munition with CCF(Course Correction Fuze) and calculated the performance of its rang error reduction. From the simulated results it can be numerically explained that the possibility of adaptation of 1D CCM concept to Korean artillery munitions.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.590-597
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• 2013

For a lower tier defense, the distance between a launcher and an engagement control station is quite important to estimate the proper defense area and to effectively arrange missile launchers. In this paper, we have analyzed an effectiveness of anti-ballistic missile launcher arrangement for the lower tier defense against the ballistic missile. The operation concept, specific configuration and aerodynamic characteristics of the ballistic missile such as SCUD-B/C, Nodong are considered in order to develop a realistic engagement simulation. The diverse engagement results through numerical simulations are provided to conduct the effectiveness analysis of anti-ballistic missiles.

• Journal of the military operations research society of Korea
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• v.32 no.1
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• pp.176-187
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• 2006

It is difficult to estimate missile flight trajectory since a ballistic missile velocity is highly fast and has inherent behavior such as corkscrew due to unstable descending. This paper describes a comprehensive analysis of the flight trajectory characteristics of ballistic missiles. Various missile flight ranges based the comprehensive flight trajectory characteristics are derived by an analytical approach. It is shown analytically that threat due to the flight characteristics is significantly increased with reducing maximum missile ranges. This work is basic research of the establishment of operational concept for the lower tier missile defense system implementation.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.5-12
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• 2008

There are some ways to improve precision of conventional munitions by low-cost method. 2D Course Correction Munition(CCM) is one of those ways, which is a 155mm projectile integrated with 2D Guidance Fuze(GF) instead of conventional fuze. 2D GF can correct the projectile trajectory and minimize range and deflection errors from its aimpoint using canard control. In this paper 2D CCM system concept is introduced and its course correction capability is analyzed using PRODAS.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2000.04a
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• pp.19-19
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• 2000

항공 탄도학 분야에 있어서 여러 다양한 형태의 발사장치들이 제시된 바 있으나, 고속 분야에서 최고의 성능을 인정을 받은 것은 constant-base-pressure gun의 개념에서 나온 2-단계 기포(two-stage light gas gun)이다. 이러한, 2-단계 기포는 1, 2차 구동부와 피동부로 구성되며, 작동 원리가 간단하고 여러 작동 인자들의 변화를 통하여 성능 향상을 이룰 수 있다. 반면에 구조적인 강도 문제로 인한 작동 한계가 있으며 내부에서는 고온, 고밀도의 영향으로 추진기체에 Nonideality현상 등이 일어난다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.173-180
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• 2015

North Korea has developed ballistic missiles over the past 30 years. It is believed that they have a variety of ballistic missiles more than 1,000. Because these ballistic missiles threaten South Korea directly, accurate analysis of them is essential. Flight trajectories of the ballistic missiles are generally changed by means of adjusting payload weight, Isp, flight path angle, and cut-off time. The flight path angle is widely used to control the missile range. However it is difficult to predict the missile trajectory exactly in real operational environment because the missile could be launched according to its intention and purpose. This work analyzed the 1,000 km range MRBM's trajectory characteristics from adjusting flight path angle which is depressed as well as lofted method. The analysis of missile trajectory characteristics is based on the simulation of the missile trajectory model developed by KNDU research team.