Downloaded from https://www.everyspec.com FOREWORD This is one of a group of handbooks covering the engineering information and quantitative data needed in the design and construction of ordnance equipment, which (as a group) con- stitutes the Ordnance Engineering Design Hand- book Series. the scope of a number of proposed handbooks to include the information. For further infor- mation and more complete lists of references the reader is referred to other appropriate hand- books within the Series.
The three handbooks comprising "Elements of Armament Engineering" were produced from text material prepared for use at the United States Military Academy, They are published as part of the Handbook Series to make generally available the wealth of fundamental information contained in the text material, which is of value to those concerned with ordnance design, par- ticularly to new engineers and to contractors' personnel.
Publication of this material in its casting form avoids the necessity of extending Arrangement for publication of the handbooks comprising "Elements of Armament Engineer- ing" was made under the direction of the Ordnance Engineering Handbook Office, Duke University, under contract to the Office of Ord- nance Research. The copy was prepared by the McGraw-Hill Book Company, under subcontract to the Ordnance Engineering Handbook Office. HI