Downloaded from https://www.everyspec.com AMCP 706.210 PREFACE The Engineering Design Handbooks of the U.S. Army Materiel Command have evolved over a vwmber of years for the purpose of making readily avail- able basic information, technical data, and practical guides for the develop- ment of military equipment. While aimed primarily at U.S. Army materiel, the handbooks serve as authoritative references fQr needs of other branches of the Armed Services as well. The present handbook is one of a series on Fuzes. This publication is the first revision of the Handbook, Fu ze, , ,e ? a I and ,Uechan wa 1. Extensive changes were made to update the volume.
Information on explosive trains was condensed, this subject now being treated in its own publication, AMCP 706-179. Illustrations of sample ammunition items, ref- erences, and test data were brought up to date. New chapters are included on design considerations and design guidance. The treatment of electric fuze ac- tions waR greatly enlarged with material excerpted from AMCP 706-215. This handbook present6 both theoretical and practical data pertaining to fuzes. Coverage includes initiation, arming, design, and tests of fuzes and their components. Both mechanical and electric fuze actions are treated. The fuz- ing of all conventional ammunition items is covered.
Prepared as an aid to ammunition designers, this handbook should also be of benefit to scientists and engineers engaged in other basically related re- search and development programs or who have responsibility for the planning and interpretation of experiments and tests concerning the performance of ammunition or ammunition components. The handbook was prepared by The Franklin Institute Research Labora- tories, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was written for the Engineering Hand- book Office of Dukte University, prime contractor to the Army Research Office-Durham.
Its preparation was under the technical guidance and coordi- nation of a special committee with representation from Picatinny Arsenal, Frankford Arsenal, and Edgewood Arsenal of the U.S. Army Munitions Command, and Harry Diamond Laboratories of AMC. Chairman of this com- mittee was Mr. Wm. A. Schuster of Picatinny Arsenal. The Handbooks are readily available to all elements of AMC, including personnel and contractors having a need and/or requirement. The Army Materiel Command policy is to release these Engineering Design Handbooks to other DOD activities and their contractors and to other Government agencies in accordance with current Army Regulation 70-31, dated 9 Sep- tember 1966.
Procedures for acquiring these Handbooks follow: a. Activities within AMC and other DOD agencies should direct their re- quests on an official form to: Commanding Officer Letterkenny Army Depot ATTN: AMXLE-ATD Chambersburg, Pennsylvania 17201 b. Contractors who have Department of Defense contracts should submit their requests, through their contracting officer with proper justification, to the address indicated in paragraph a. xvii