Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to provide a high-performance composite material shell, a processing method and a bullet using the shell.
The invention is realized in the following way:
In a first aspect, the present invention provides a high performance composite material cartridge case, wherein the material of the cartridge case is a composite material, the composite material comprises a thermosetting or thermoplastic matrix material and a fiber material, and the fiber material comprises at least one of basalt fiber, polyimide fiber and aramid fiber.
In an alternative embodiment, the shell comprises a shell barrel and a detonation hole positioned on the shell barrel, wherein a continuous pressure barrel is arranged at one end, close to the detonation hole, in the shell barrel, and the continuous pressure barrel is made of a composite material.
In an alternative embodiment, the matrix material of the continuous pressure cylinder is liquid resin, and the mass fraction of the matrix material in the continuous pressure cylinder is 60-70%.
In an alternative embodiment, the fiber material in the continuous pressure cylinder is basalt fiber plain cloth or basalt fiber twill cloth, and the surface density is 200-500g/m 2.
In an alternative embodiment, the molding material in the shell is a solid composite material.
In an alternative embodiment, the volume fraction of fibers in the shell is 30-50%.
In an alternative embodiment, the casing is provided with a first casing section, a second casing section and a third casing section in sequence along a direction away from the detonation hole, the wall thicknesses of the first casing section, the second casing section and the third casing section are gradually reduced, and the continuous pressure cylinder is positioned in the first casing section.
In a second aspect, the present invention provides a method for processing a high performance composite material cartridge case according to any one of the preceding claims, comprising continuous pressure cylinder forming and shell cylinder forming;
The continuous pressure cylinder is formed by compression molding or wet molding, the shell cylinder is formed by injection molding, and then the continuous pressure cylinder and the shell cylinder are assembled, or the continuous pressure cylinder is formed by compression molding or wet molding, and then the shell is obtained by taking the continuous pressure cylinder as an insert and adopting an insert injection molding mode.
In an alternative embodiment, the method comprises:
Coating liquid resin on the surface of basalt fiber plain cloth, pre-curing for 1-2 hours at 35-45 ℃, and then performing compression molding or wet molding to obtain a continuous pressure cylinder;
and taking the continuous pressure cylinder as an insert, and integrally injection molding by adopting an insert injection molding process at 270-290 ℃ to obtain the high-performance composite material cartridge case.
In a third aspect, the present invention provides a bullet comprising a high performance composite casing as claimed in any one of the preceding claims.
The invention has the following beneficial effects:
In order to eliminate the phenomena of explosion, shell cracking and the like of the plastic shell when the bullet is shot, the high-performance composite material shell adopts the lightweight high-strength basalt fiber composite material, the polyimide fiber composite material and the aramid fiber composite material to replace the original shell so as to reduce the whole weight of the product while meeting the service performance of the shell, thereby achieving the purpose of light weight.
The cartridge case is made of basalt fiber composite materials, polyimide fiber composite materials and aramid fiber composite materials, so that light weight research in the field of anti-service equipment can be greatly spanned, the weight of products can be firstly reduced, the load of users is reduced, the logistic pressure is relieved, materials are secondly saved, consumption of steel and expensive brass materials is avoided, requirements on high-precision machining of copper parts and steel parts are further avoided, production cost is reduced, ammunition consistency can be improved by using an injection molding process, accuracy is guaranteed, and finally the cartridge case made of the composite materials can guarantee higher muzzle initial speed, and can keep the rifling pressure in a higher range, which is unattainable by brass and other metal products.
Detailed Description
In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the embodiments of the present invention more clear, the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below. The specific conditions are not noted in the examples and are carried out according to conventional conditions or conditions recommended by the manufacturer. The reagents or apparatus used were conventional products commercially available without the manufacturer's attention.
The embodiment provides a composite material shell, wherein the shell is made of a composite material, the composite material comprises a thermosetting or thermoplastic matrix material and a fiber material, and the fiber material comprises at least one of basalt fiber, polyimide fiber and aramid fiber.
In order to eliminate the phenomena of explosion, shell cracking and the like of the plastic shell when the bullet is shot, the high-performance composite material shell adopts the lightweight high-strength basalt fiber composite material, the polyimide composite material and the aramid fiber composite material to replace the original shell so as to reduce the whole weight of the product while meeting the service performance of the shell, thereby achieving the purpose of light weight.
In some embodiments of the application, the cartridge case comprises a case barrel and a detonation hole positioned on the case barrel, wherein a continuous pressure barrel is arranged at one end, close to the detonation hole, in the case barrel, and the continuous pressure barrel is made of a composite material.
In order to eliminate the phenomena of explosion, shell cracking and the like of the existing plastic shell when a bullet shoots, the original metal base is replaced by a lightweight high-strength basalt fiber composite material continuous pressure cylinder so as to bear most of the rifling pressure generated when the product is used.
In some embodiments of the application, the continuous pressure cylinder is obtained by compression molding or wet molding.
The basalt fiber composite material continuous pressure cylinder can resist burst impact, and the compression molding or wet molding mode is more beneficial to improving the burst impact resistance of the continuous pressure cylinder. The compression molding process can mold the continuous pressure cylinder at one time, has accurate size, smooth surface and good appearance and repeatability of the size of the continuous pressure cylinder, and can realize mechanized and automatic mass production. In addition, the composite material continuous pressure cylinder has a simple structure, has no high requirement on appearance, and is more convenient to use compression molding or wet molding.
In some embodiments of the present application, the matrix material of the continuous pressure cylinder is liquid resin, and the mass fraction of the matrix material in the continuous pressure cylinder is 60-70%, for example, the matrix material may be epoxy resin, phenolic resin, polyethylene, polyoxymethylene, etc.
In some embodiments of the present application, the fiber material in the continuous pressure cylinder is basalt fiber plain cloth or basalt fiber twill cloth, and the surface density is 200-500g/m 2, for example, may be 200g/m 2、300g/m2、400g/m2、500g/m2, etc.
In some embodiments of the present application, the continuous pressure cylinder is obtained by coating liquid resin on the surface of basalt fiber and then performing compression molding or wet molding.
In some embodiments of the application, the shell is obtained by injection molding, or the shell is obtained by insert injection molding with the continuous pressure cylinder as an insert.
The composite material molding shell cylinder is selected, so that the use performance of the shell is met, and the whole weight of the product is reduced, so that the purpose of light weight is achieved. Because the continuous pressure cylinder belongs to a thermosetting composite material, the shell cylinder belongs to a thermoplastic material, the shell belongs to a precision product, and the connection between the shell and the shell cannot be welded or perforated, the research project adopts an insert injection molding process. Insert molding refers to a molding method in which a prepared special material insert is filled in a mold, then resin is injected, and the molten resin and the insert are combined and solidified to prepare an integrated product. The insert molding process is used for tightly connecting the continuous pressure cylinder and the shell cylinder without generating the defect of gaps, and on the other hand, the coaxiality of the 2 products is ensured, and the capability of the continuous pressure cylinder for bearing most of the rifling generated during bullet shooting is ensured to be exerted to the greatest extent.
In addition, the continuous pressure cylinder and the shell cylinder can be formed through insert injection molding, so that the consistency of products is improved during mass production to ensure the precision of the products, and automatic, standardized and large-scale mass production can be realized.
In some embodiments of the present application, the molding material in the shell is a solid plastic or a solid composite material, for example, may be polypropylene, nylon, polyoxymethylene, polyphenylene sulfide, etc.
In some embodiments of the application, the basalt fiber volume fraction in the shell is 30-50%, such as 30%,35%,40%,45% or 50%.
In some embodiments of the present application, the casing is sequentially provided with a first casing section, a second casing section and a third casing section along a direction away from the explosion initiating hole, the wall thicknesses of the first casing section, the second casing section and the third casing section are gradually reduced, and the continuous pressure casing is located in the first casing section.
According to the stress condition of the shell, the wall thickness of the shell is adjusted in a targeted manner, so that phenomena such as explosion and fracture are avoided when bullets shoot.
Another embodiment of the present application provides a method for processing the basalt fiber composite material cartridge case according to any one of the preceding claims, including continuous pressure cylinder molding and shell cylinder molding;
The continuous pressure cylinder is formed by compression molding or wet molding, the shell cylinder is formed by injection molding, and then the continuous pressure cylinder and the shell cylinder are assembled, or the continuous pressure cylinder is formed by compression molding or wet molding, and then the shell is obtained by taking the continuous pressure cylinder as an insert and adopting an insert injection molding mode.
In an alternative embodiment, the method comprises:
Coating liquid resin on the surface of basalt fiber, pre-curing for 1-2 hours at 35-45 ℃, and then performing compression molding or wet molding to obtain a continuous pressure cylinder;
And taking the continuous pressure cylinder as an insert, and integrally injection molding by adopting an insert injection molding process at 270-290 ℃ to obtain the basalt fiber composite material shell.
Another embodiment of the application provides a bullet comprising a casing according to any one of the preceding claims.
The features and capabilities of the present invention are described in further detail below in connection with the examples.
Example 1
The embodiment provides a basalt fiber composite material shell case, the shell case includes a shell section of thick bamboo and is located the detonation hole on the shell section of thick bamboo, be provided with continuous pressure tube in the shell section of thick bamboo near the one end of detonation hole.
The structure of the continuous pressure cylinder is shown in figure 1, and can be used for replacing a metal base of a traditional bullet, so that the defects of explosion, cracking and the like of the bullet can be avoided during shooting, the whole weight of the bullet is reduced, the outer diameter D of the continuous pressure cylinder is phi 18.8mm, the inner diameter D of the continuous pressure cylinder is phi 17.5mm, and the whole height h of the continuous pressure cylinder is 18.9mm. The basalt fiber composite material continuous pressure cylinder processing method in the embodiment comprises the steps of preparing the basalt fiber composite material continuous pressure cylinder in a compression molding mode due to the fact that the structure of the composite material continuous pressure cylinder is simple and has no high requirement on appearance, specifically, selecting basalt fiber plain cloth with the surface density of 300g/m 2, uniformly coating the basalt fiber plain cloth with the prepared epoxy resin on the basalt fiber plain cloth, fully soaking the basalt fiber plain cloth, layering the basalt fiber plain cloth in a circumferential and axial mode, enabling the number of layering of the continuous pressure cylinder to be 3, pre-curing the fiber cloth coated with the epoxy resin for 1.5 hours at the temperature of 40 ℃, and then adopting compression molding to obtain the basalt fiber composite material continuous pressure cylinder.
The structure of the shell is shown in figure 2, wherein the total length L of the shell is 65mm, the diameter D of the bottom edge is phi 22.45mm, the diameter D 1 of the bottom edge is phi 20.55mm, the outer diameter D 2 of the shell opening is phi 20.15mm, the inner diameter D of the bottom edge is phi 17.5mm, the inner diameter D 1 of the shell is phi 18.47mm, and the thickness h of the bottom edge is 1.81mm. The bullet shell almost occupies half of the total bullet weight, plays roles of safety protection, support, connection and containment, protection of bullet chambers and the like, and adopts PA66 plus 40 percent basalt fiber long cutting material as a shell barrel forming material. The processing method of the basalt fiber composite material continuous pressure cylinder in the embodiment comprises the following steps of integrally injection molding the basalt fiber composite material continuous pressure cylinder at 280 ℃ by adopting an insert injection molding process to obtain a basalt fiber composite material cartridge case product. Compared with the traditional shell forming material, the embodiment forms the shell barrel by utilizing the characteristics of high modulus, high strength, instantaneous high temperature resistance, no toxicity and the like of basalt fibers, meets the service performance requirements of bullets, integrates the continuous pressure barrel and the shell barrel by utilizing an insert molding process in the aspect of the forming process, can reduce the difference between products, improves the production efficiency, and is shown in a physical diagram 8 and a physical diagram 9 of the obtained continuous pressure barrel and the shell barrel.
Comparative example 1
In the comparative example, long glass fiber is selected as a reinforcing material, the mass fraction of the glass fiber is 50%, nylon 66 is selected as a matrix material, and injection molding is carried out at 260-280 ℃ to form a composite material shell, wherein the specific structure is the same as that of the shell barrel in the example 1. The bullet is blasted in the shooting process, and as shown in fig. 3, the bottom of the bullet shell is cracked, and the bullet shell is rapidly torn along the bottom crack by inner high pressure after the bullet is disassembled by a firearm and the shape of the broken bullet shell is analyzed, because the convex flange edge of the bottom of the bullet shell is rapidly hooked by the bullet shell drag hook in the moment, the stress concentration is serious at the joint position of the bottom edge and the side edge, and the bullet shell is firstly torn from the position.
Comparative example 2
The specific structure of the shell in this comparative example is the same as the structure of the shell in example 1, and the material is an aluminum alloy material.
Experimental example CAE analysis
(1) Material performance parameter table
Table 1 parameters of aluminium alloy in comparative example 2 and PA66+40% long basalt fiber material in example 1
TABLE 2 parameters of 300g/m 2 basalt fiber plain weave cloth material
| Project |
Unit (B) |
300G/m 2 basalt fiber plain cloth |
| Tensile Strength |
MPa |
479 |
| Mass per unit area |
g/m2 |
300 |
| Water content |
% |
0.01 |
| Combustible content |
% |
0.60 |
(2) Load condition of
The loading chamber pressure was gradually increased from 0 until the stress or strain of the aluminum alloy case exceeded the allowable value, and then the stress strain conditions of the aluminum alloy case and the continuous pressure cylinder in example 1 under the pressure to which the aluminum alloy case was most subjected were analyzed. After analysis, it was found that the maximum allowable stress of the aluminum alloy material was reached when the applied rift pressure reached 221MPa, and the analysis results of the stress strain conditions of the aluminum alloy cartridge case in comparative example 2 and the continuous pressure cylinder in example 1 were compared with those shown in table 3 below and fig. 4 to 7.
TABLE 3 comparison of results of stress strain analysis
According to the simulation analysis data, when the composite material cartridge case rift pressure in the example 1 reaches the same as that in the aluminum alloy cartridge case of the comparative example 2, only the innermost layer of the continuous pressure cylinder with the number of 3 layers is damaged, and the whole cartridge case is not cracked and damaged. I.e. the continuous pressure cylinder is subjected to most of the rifling pressure generated when the bullet is fired, is sufficient to demonstrate the feasibility of the solution of adding a continuous pressure cylinder in the first cylinder section.
The application also compares the material of each successive pressure cylinder and shell, wherein the shells differ from example 1 only in the material, and observations of shells of different material successive pressure cylinders and shell combinations are shown in table 4 below and figures 10-14.
TABLE 4 comparison of different materials for the case
As can be seen from fig. 10 to 14, compared with the basalt fiber composite material continuous pressure cylinder, the cartridge case prepared by the carbon fiber composite material continuous pressure cylinder has defects, and may crack or break, whether PA66 or long glass fiber is used as the case or continuous pressure cylinder, or no continuous pressure cylinder, and the obtained cartridge case is damaged in the bundling experiment, and has far lower performance than the basalt fiber composite material.
TABLE 5 comparison of various properties of different fibers
The performance comparison among basalt fiber, polyimide fiber and aramid fiber is shown in the table 5, and the performance difference of the 3 fibers is not great, so that the weight of the composite material shell can be reduced while the service performance of the composite material shell is ensured, and the production cost is reduced.
The above description is only of the preferred embodiments of the present invention and is not intended to limit the present invention, but various modifications and variations can be made to the present invention by those skilled in the art. Any modification, equivalent replacement, improvement, etc. made within the spirit and principle of the present invention should be included in the protection scope of the present invention.