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Article Citation Count: 5ANALYSIS OF THE EFFECT OF PROPELLANT TEMPERATURE ON INTERIOR BALLISTICS PROBLEM(Yildiz Technical Univ, 2018) Evci, Celal; Isik, H.; Department of Mechanical EngineeringThis study investigates the effect of conditioning temperature of double base propellants on the interior ballistic parameters such as burning gas temperature, barrel wall temperature, pressure and stresses generated in the barrel. Interior ballistic problem was solved employing experimental, numerical and analytical methods with a thermo-mechanical approach. Double base propellants were conditioned at different temperatures ( 52, 35, 21, 0, -20, -35, -54 degrees C). The maximum pressure in the barrel and projectile muzzle velocity were measured for all the propellants by conducting shooting tests with a special test barrel using 7.62x51 mm NATO ammunition. Vallier-Heydenreich method was employed to determine the transient pressure distribution along the barrel. The temperature of burnt gases was calculated by using Noble-Abel equation. The heat transfer analysis was done using the commercial software ANSYS to get the transient temperature and stress distributions. Temperature distribution through the barrel wall thickness was validated using a FLIR thermal imager. Radial, circumferential and axial stresses and corresponding equivalent Von Misses stresses were determined numerically and analytically. The results of the analytical solution for stress analysis validated the finite element solution of interior ballistic problem. Increasing the initial temperature of the propellant resulted in higher temperature and pressure inside the barrel which in turn increased the stresses in the barrel.Article Citation Count: 4Effect of welding wire and groove angle on mechanical properties of high strength steel welded joints(Wiley-v C H verlag Gmbh, 2017) Evci, Celal; Isik, H.; Macar, M.; Department of Mechanical EngineeringMechanical properties of high strength steel welded joints strictly depend on the welding process, the filler material composition and the welding geometry. This study investigates the effects of using cored and solid welding wires and implementing various groove angles on the mechanical performance of weld joints which were fabricated employing the gas metal arc welding process. It was found that weld joints of low alloy, high strength steels using low alloy steel cored welding wires exhibited higher tensile strength than that of low alloy steel solid wire and chromium-nickel steel bare welding wire when the method of gas metal arc welding is employed. The effect of groove angle on the strength and toughness of V-groove and double V-groove butt-joints was investigated. V-groove joints, with higher tensile strength than double V-groove joints in the whole range of groove angles, were superior in toughness for small groove angles, but impact toughness values of both joints were comparable for large angles. The effect of heat input and cooling rate on the weld microstructure and weld strength was also investigated by performing thermal analysis employing the commercial software ANSYS. It was concluded that cooling rate and solidification growth rate determined the microstructure of the weld zone which had great consequences in regard to mechanical properties.