Date of Award

5-5-2024

Degree Type

Capstone Project

First Advisor

Bahram Nassersharif

Abstract

The purpose of this capstone project is to create a device that can safely and accurately test the efficacy of an insensitive munition under constant thermal stress over a large period of time. Before the design of this capstone project the testing apparatus used by several branches of the military was not well thought out and often was made of materials found around the test site. This Capstone project brought a more analytical and effective approach to this problem to give a single slow cook off device that could be used universally for all applications of slow cook off testing.

This semester our capstone group worked to develop a prototype of what, through thorough research, could match the parameters of the project. The main parameters being that the oven must reach 500℃ at 15℃ intervals, could withstand that temperature while being permeable to lethal and non-lethal fragments from a reaction. As well as the insensitive munition not being in direct contact with the heating element.

So far our group has conducted concept generation, analysis of those concepts, design specifications, as well as a proof of concept and generated a prototype/model. In the next semester we plan to develop a working prototype as well as conduct more research into heating elements and more 3D modeling and analysis.

Comments

Team Name: Team 10

Company Sponsor: Naval Ordnance Safety and Security Activity (NOSSA)

Sponsor Representative: Joseph LiVolsi

Document Reference: URI-MCE-CAP-PDR-2023-10

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