Bullet with negative Poisson's ratio effect and method of designing thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11578959-B2
Application number	US-201916955789-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 10, 2019
Priority date	Dec 19, 2018
Publication date	Feb 14, 2023
Grant date	Feb 14, 2023

Abstract

The present invention discloses a bullet with a negative Poisson's ratio effect and a method of designing thereof. The bullet includes a cylindrical section of the bullet having a negative Poisson's ratio design, and a conical tail of the bullet and a tip of the bullet each with a matching design; the cylindrical section of the bullet is a tubular structure having periodically alternating transverse and vertical holes; the tubular structure includes a plurality of holes, with a center axis of one hole being axially perpendicular to a center axis of another adjacent hole, that is, the axis of each hole being structurally orthogonal to an adjacent hole; and the holes in rows and columns are periodically arranged into the tubular structure, which is a tubular structure having the negative Poisson's ratio effect.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A bullet, comprising:
a cylindrical section of the bullet having a negative Poisson's ratio, and
a conical tail of the bullet and a tip of the bullet, wherein:
the cylindrical section of the bullet is a tubular structure having periodically alternating transverse and vertical holes;
wherein for each of the alternating transverse and vertical holes, a center axis of one of the alternating transverse and vertical holes is axially perpendicular to a center axis of another adjacent hole, the holes are arranged in an array of rows and columns, with two mutually perpendicular holes between each alternating row and each alternating column, that is, the axis of each hole is structurally orthogonal to an adjacent hole, and the holes in the rows and columns are periodically arranged into the tubular structure, which is a tubular structure having the negative Poisson's ratio;
a relationship between a length M of the tip of the bullet and a diameter D of the bullet satisfies the following: 3.08>M/D>2.23;
a relationship between a total length H of the bullet and the diameter D of the bullet satisfies the following: 5.4>H/D>3.28;
a relationship between the diameter D of the bullet and a thickness N of a housing of the conical tail of the bullet satisfies the following: 3>D/N>1.5; and
a relationship between a length L of the cylindrical section of the bullet and a thickness T of a round tube of the cylindrical section of the bullet satisfies the following: L/T>0.05.

2. The bullet according to claim 1 , wherein the holes comprise elliptic, triangular and polygonal holes.

3. A method of fabricating the bullet according to claim 2 , comprising the following steps:
1) determining shapes and sizes of individual components of the bullet according to the usage of the bullet, comprising: the total length of the bullet, the length of the cylindrical section of the bullet, the length of the tip of the bullet, the length of the conical tail of the bullet and the diameter of the bullet;
2) designing the tubular structure of the cylindrical section of the bullet with periodically alternating transverse and vertical holes, matching a designed negative Poisson's ratio tubular structure with the conical tail of the bullet and the tip of the bullet, and based thereon, determining sizes of the tubular structure of the cylindrical section of the bullet, the conical tail of the bullet, and the tip of the bullet to establish a three-dimensional model; and
3) fabricating the bullet by using a 3D metal printing technology, and conducting actual experimental tests to verify whether the bullet meets characteristics of reducing energy loss due to frictions between the bullet and a gun barrel.

4. A method of fabricating the bullet according to claim 1 , comprising the following steps:
1) determining shapes and sizes of individual components of the bullet according to the usage of the bullet, comprising: the total length of the bullet, the length of the cylindrical section of the bullet, the length of the tip of the bullet, the length of the conical tail of the bullet and the diameter of the bullet;
2) designing the tubular structure of the cylindrical section of the bullet with periodically alternating transverse and vertical holes, matching a designed negative Poisson's ratio tubular structure with the conical tail of the bullet and the tip of the bullet, and based thereon, determining sizes of the tubular structure of the cylindrical section of the bullet, the conical tail of the bullet, and the tip of the bullet to establish a three-dimensional model; and
3) fabricating the bullet by using a 3D metal printing technology, and conducting actual experimental tests to verify whether the bullet meets characteristics of reducing energy loss due to frictions between the bullet and a gun barrel.

Assignees

• Nanjing University Of Technology

Inventors

• Ren Xin
• Han Chuanzhen
• Wang Shilong
• Zhang Xiangyu

Classifications

• F42B12/76 Primary

  of the casing · CPC title

• F42B33/00

  Manufacture of ammunition; Dismantling of ammunition; Apparatus therefor (F42B5/188 takes precedence; manufacturing processes for hollow charges F42B1/036; manufacture of blasting cartridge initiators F42B3/195) · CPC title

• F42B12/04 Primary

  of armour-piercing type · CPC title

• G06F30/17 Primary

  Mechanical parametric or variational design · CPC title

• F42B14/00

  Projectiles or missiles characterised by arrangements for guiding or sealing them inside barrels, or for lubricating or cleaning barrels · CPC title