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Mechanical Testing of Tomahawk cruise missiles
The Navy continues to improve Tomahawk cruise missiles to meet the needs of combatants war "for a more flexible and" tactics " precision strike weapon. As technologies are developed to provide new capabilities operational and / or to reduce costs, title = "Mechanical Testing"> tests, it is often performed to verify properties "properties Mechanical> before the application.
Tomahawk cruise missiles are designed to fly at extremely low altitudes at high subsonic speeds. They are made up of destroyers, submarines and aircraft, and can hit a target with incredible accuracy. The missiles were used successfully in several conflicts beginning with Operation Desert Storm in 1991.
A cruise missile is basically a 20-foot by 21 inches, a drone with a wingspan of 8.5 meters high. At launch, these missiles are a solid fuel motor rocket 550 pounds. The solid rocket accelerates the missile until the wings, flaps tail and air intake are deployed and turbofan engine takes over the cruise flight. Once your work is done, the memory fades.
The missile is capable of flying 500 to 1,000 miles to deliver a bomb of 1,000 pounds of high explosive to a target. When the bomb explodes, the cruise missile $ 500,000 to $ 1,000,000 destroyed. Although very expensive, are the weapon of choice for a variety of fast attack operations, both for its precision and efficiency to evade detection the enemy.
When a new case and closure for the motor that starts the Tomahawk was in development, mechanical testing was carried out on parts after heat treatment to ensure that all physical properties were achieved in the process. The testing laboratory tensile tests performed on test specimens of mechanical machined engine covers and closures to obtain the required results.
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Sharon Bentzley is Marketing Manager for Laboratory Testing Inc. (LTI), an accredited independent, materials analysis and calibration services laboratory performing mechanical testing, chemical analysis, metallurgical testing, nondestructive testing, corrosion analysis, failure analysis, specimen machining, dimensional inspection and calibration. LTI’s equipment can test a wide range of parts and specimens from small fasteners to large diameter tubing and bolts. Our procedures conform to ASTM, AMS, ASME, ANSI and MIL specifications.
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