The NSWC IHD Research, Development, Test and Evaluation Department’s Advanced Diagnostics (AD) group has developed, and provides support for, a number of software packages and documentation related to measurement and analysis techniques for energetic material testing and evaluation.
The list of software will be updated as new distributions become available.
For inquiries: NSWCIHDAD.fct@navy.mil
TO REQUEST AD SOFTWARE:
DoD personnel/DoD contractors: Request for software may be sent to NSWCIHDAD.fct@navy.mil. After approval, the software package and installation instructions will be sent to the user.
Industry: Software may be available through collaborative agreements with NSWC IHD.
U.S. academia: Currently, only academic performers in support to a DoD sponsored grant or contract may be eligible to receive software on a case-by case basis. A DoD program manager must send a request for software on the academic performer’s behalf to NSWCIHDAD.fct@navy.mil. After approval, the software package and installation instructions will be sent to the user.
Foreign nationals: There is limited access to these software tools by foreign nationals through cooperative agreements with the DoD. For more information, please contact NSWCIHDAD.fct@navy.mil.
General public: There are currently no software tools available to access by the general public.
SOFTWARE CATALOG:
Multiple ThermoCouple (MTC) Temperature Analysis - TCReduction v.1.4 (beta)
The use of multiple, co-located thermocouples (e.g., NSWC IHD MTC gauges) with differing time constants permits numerical compensation of thermocouple lag in order to measure highly dynamic gas temperatures such as those experienced in explosive fireballs.
TCReduction is a user-friendly, data processing Graphical User Interface that includes several tools and methods for visualizing and reducing thermocouple data, reconstructing the true gas temperature, and calculating thermal impulse.
Technical support for DoD components is available for this software.
This software is in beta testing. (Beta ends Sept. 31)
Related literature:
Frost, D. L., Clemenson, J. M., Goroshin, S., Zhang, F., & Soo, M. (2021). Thermocouple Temperature Measurements in Metalized Explosive Fireballs. Propellants, Explosives, Pyrotechnics, 46(6), 899-911.
Tagawa, M., & Ohta, Y. (1997). Two-thermocouple probe for fluctuating temperature measurement in combustion—Rational estimation of mean and fluctuating time constants. Combustion and flame, 109(4), 549-560.