• Journal of the Korean Magnetics Society
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• v.25 no.3
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• pp.83-86
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• 2015

Nowadays the weapon systems are employed air bursting munition (ABM) as smart programmable 40 mm shells which have been developed in order to hit the target with programmed munition that can be air burst after a set distance in the battlefield. In order to improve the accuracy of such a bursting time, by measuring the speed of the munition from the barrel, weapon systems calculate the exact time of flight to the target and then the time information must be inputted to the munition. In this study, we introduce a device capable of detecting a shot at K4 40 mm automatic grenade. The shot is composed of a rotating copper band to convert linear motion into rotary motion when it passes through the barrel, the steel section is exert the effect of fragment and aluminum section to give fuze information. The aluminum section was used to detect munition using eddy current method. To measure muzzle velocity by means of non-contact method, two eddy current probes separated 10 cm was employed. Time interval between two eddy current probe detection times was used as muzzle velocity. The eddy current probe was fabricated U-shape Mn-Zn ferrite core with enamelled copper wire, and 200 kHz alternating current was used to detect inductance change. Measured muzzle velocity using the developed sensor was compared to the Doppler radar system. The difference was smaller than 1%.

• Journal of Magnetics
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.90-94
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• 2013

We designed a model composed of a ring type magnet, a yoke, and a sensing coil embedded in a projectile for simulating the muzzle velocity. The muzzle velocity was obtained from the master curve for the induced voltage at sensing coil and the velocity as the projectile pass through the magnetic field. The induced voltage and the projectile's velocity are fitted by the $2^{nd}$ order polynomial. The skin effect difference between projectiles which consist of aluminum-aluminum and aluminum-steel was small. The projectile will surely be burst at the pre-determined target area using the flight time and the projectile muzzle velocity calculated from the voltage induced at the sensing coil on the projectile.

• Journal of the Korean Magnetics Society
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• v.26 no.2
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• pp.62-66
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• 2016

We designed a model composed a ring type magnet, a yoke, and a sensing coil buried in a projectile for calculating the muzzle velocity based on the voltage induced from sensing coil by simulation. The muzzle velocity was calculated from the master curve obtained through the voltage induced from sensing coil by simulation. The induced voltage increased with increasing the diameter of sensing coil. The projectile's velocity was proportional to the induced voltage when the sensing coil was buried in projectile. The projectile will be surely exploded at the target region by inputting the information of muzzle velocity variation corrected the diameter effect of induced voltage of sensing coil.