18TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM & EXHIBITION ON BALLISTICS The National Defense Industrial Association's Ballistics Division invites you to participate in the 18th International Symposium & Exhibition on Ballistics that will be held 15-19 November 1999 at the Municipal Auditorium, San Antonio, Texas. The papers listed for the outstanding technical program for this International event, were selected by the Ballistics Division with the cooperation and assistance of the International Ballistics Committee, which joins us in encouraging your participation. The technical program provides the basis for a forum in which researchers, from 27 different countries, can share and exchange unclassified and unrestricted information in the various fields of Ballistics, through oral and poster presentations as well as through commercial exhibits, including ballistics instrumentation. We are pleased to have the Institute for Advanced Technology, University of Texas at Austin and Southwest Research Institute serve as local co-hosts this important International event under the sponsorship of the National Defense Industrial Association. The objective of the Symposium is to create a forum where scientists, engineers and other experts on ballistics can meet, publish their latest unclassified work, suitable for open publication, and present new materials for discussion. The Symposium will include oral and poster presentations, and a concurrent exhibition of ballistics technology. Participants will be able to make active exchanges on the most recent technological advances. Presentations will embrace new ballistic and warhead technologies and experimental results, theories, analytical and numerical techniques and modeling, unique and innovative experimental methods, as well as practical ideas representing an advancement in the state of the art. The following major topical areas will be presented: Exterior Ballistics Warhead Mechanics & Effects Interior Ballistics Weapon Concept Analysis Launch & Propulsion Weapon Systems Terminal Ballistics Vulnerability Modeling Warhead Mechanisms Vulnerability & Wound Ballistics Approximately 260 papers and posters will be presented at the symposium. The following countries are represented by the authors of the papers and exhibits: Australia Israel Slovak Republic Belarus Japan South Africa Belgium Netherlands Republic of Korea Canada Norway Spain Czech Republic People's Republic of China Sweden Egypt Poland Switzerland France Republic of China Ukraine Germany Russia United Kingdom India Singapore United States of America WEB: Visit this website to view the agenda and registration, http://www.ndia.org/events/brochure/021/021.htm. Posted 09/22/99 (W-SN383123).

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