Specific areas covered in the tutorial will include the following:

1）Ignition of Solid Propellants. This will include different ignition methods and modes of energy transfer.

2）Solid Propellants. This will include propellant types, ingredients and manufacturing.

3）Novel Guns and Advanced Charges. This will include liquid propellant guns, electro thermal-chemical guns, consolidated/compressed charges, monolithic charges and the combustion light gas gun.

4）Charge Design and Interior Ballistics Modelling. This will include factors to be taken into account when designing a solid propellant charge, such as propellant geometry and type, temperature coefficient, different types of interior ballistic model.

Other areas may be addressed by request in advance or questions during or afterwards.

New materials and technology for passive armours：

1. Behaviour of Passive Armours after Impact of Different Types of Projectiles

1.1. Principle of passive armours behaviour during impact of different types of projectiles

1.2. Passive armours for protection against fragments from exploding terrorist bomb

1.3. Passive armours for protection of helicopter against 12.7 mm AP (Armour Piercing) projectiles

1.4. Passive armours for protection of moving objects (LFV – Light Fighting Vehicle) against 7.62÷14.5 mm AP projectiles

1.5. CAWA modular and tightfitting passive armours for protection of LFV

1.6. CAWA-2 passive armours for protection of heavy armour (tank) against 125 mm tungsten projectile APFSDS

1.7. Perforated passive armours

1.8. Passive armours for protection against RPG-7 (PAWA-1, bird cage, net)

2. Nanostructural Steel (NS)

2.1. Parameters of nanostructural steel

2.2. Building of armours with nanostructural steel

2.3. Principle of nanostructural steel behaviour during impact of different types of projectiles

2.4. Passive armours with the use of superhard nanostructural Fe-based alloys

2.5. Testing of passive armours with the use of nanostructural steel

3. Shear Thickening Fluid (STF)

3.1. Parameters of shear thickenig fluid

3.2. Building of armours with reological fluids

3.3. Principle of shear thickenig fluid behaviour during impact of different types of projectiles

3.4. Passive smart body armours with the use of reological fluids with nanostructures

3.5. Testing of passive armours with the use of reological fluids with nanostructures

4. Magnetoreological Fluid (MF)

4.1. Parameters of magnetoreological fluid

4.2. Building of armours with magnetoreological fluids

4.3. Principle of magnetoreological fluid behaviour during impact of different types of projectiles

4.4. Passive armours with the use of magnetoreological fluids with nanostructures

4.5. Testing of passive armours with the use of magnetoreological fluids with nanostructures

The introduction of nano-sized energetic ingredients first occurred at the Semenov Institute of Chemical Physics, Moscow, Russia about 60 years ago and arose great expectations in the rocket propulsion community. Thanks to higher energy densities and faster energy release rates with respect to conventional energetic ingredients, a revolutionary progress was expected in solid rocket propulsion. But despite an intense worldwide research effort, still today only laboratory-level applications have been mostly reported and often for scientific purposes only. A number of practical reasons prevents the applications of nanoenergetic ingredients at industrial level: inert natural coating of particles, active metal content，nonuniform dispersion, excessive viscosity of the slurry propellant, possible limitations in mechanical properties, more demanding safety issues, and so on. This tutorial describes the main features, in terms of performance parameters, of solid rocket propellants loaded with nanometals and intends to emphasize the unique properties made possible by the addition of nano-sized energetic ingredients. In the first part, steady combustion regimes are examined in detail, including burning rate, pressure exponent, and initial temperature sensitivity, for a wide variety of solid propellants. In the second part, unsteady combustion regimes are discussed, including ignition, extinction by fast depressurization, self-sustained oscillatory burning, pressure deflagration limit, acoustic damping and other transient burning processes. In the third part, particle passivation and coating, chemical and mechanical activation, condensed combustion products, aggregation/agglomeration phenomena, hazards and aging, and delivered specific impulse of solid rocket motors are treated.

One often considers a gun as a rigid straight system, with a rigid projectile, considered as a material point, travelling through the barrel. These are the hypothesises of Internal Ballistics, the science of propelling a projectile through a gun. Actually, the dynamics of gun firing is more complex, and involves lots of phenomena. Gun dynamics deals with the actual movement of the projectile, subjected to the pressure generated by the propulsion gases, and interacting with a flexible system, comprising the gun barrel itself, also subjected to pressure, and also moving relatively to its stand under the action of recoil. The topic of this tutorial is to describe what are the interaction between the different components of the system, i.e. the projectile ends its inner parts such as sabot and penetrator, the barrel, rifled or not, the breech block, the recoil system, and the guiding system, such as the cradle or the sled. The motion equations will be described, detailing the different efforts applied on the projectile, and the reactions of the different parts of the weapon system. Modelling and experimental techniques will also be presented, and will allow to study the sensitivity of several definition parameters. To conclude, the influence of the muzzle and projectile movements on the final impact point will be examined and some information about intermediate ballistics will be given.