CALCULATION OF MEASUREMENTS UNCERTAINTY AT CARRYING OUT OF BALLISTIC RESEARCHES

Today one of the priority problems is receiving an accreditation certificate under the international standard ISO/IEC 17025:2006 by measurement laboratories of Expert service subdivision of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine. One of the requirements which is shown to the accredited testing laboratories, is a presence of uncertainty estimation procedure and ability to apply it. As the ballistic researches are one of the important directions of researches which are carried out in the expert subdivisions, therefore the paper is devoted to the consideration ofa question of uncertainty calculation in such measurements. In the mathematical statistics two types of parametres which characterize dispersion of not correlated random variables are known: a root-mean-square deviation and a confidential interval. As the characteristics of uncertainty they are applied under the title standard and expanded uncertainty. An elementary estimation of measurements result and its uncertainty is carried out in such an order: description of the measured quantity; revealing of uncertainty sources; quantitative description uncertainty constituents (there are estimated uncertainty constituents which can be received a posteriori or a priori); calculation of standard uncertainty of each source, total standard uncertainty and expanded uncertainty. A posterior estimation is possible only in the case of carrying out multiple observations of the measured quantity (standard uncertainty of type A). An a priori estimation is carried out when multiple observations are not performed. In this case it’s necessary to use the information received from the measurements performed before, from the passport data on the facilities ofmeasuring technics orfrom reference books (standard uncertainty of type B). Short consideration of uncertainty concept, elucidation of the basic stages measurements result estimation and its uncertainty gives the chance to transform the theoretical knowledge into practical application of uncertainty estimation on examples of measurements uncertainty calculation during carrying out ballistic ammunition researches by two different ways.