A Geometric Description Technique Suitable for Computer Analysis of Both the Nuclear and Conventional Vulnerability of Armored Military Vehicles

Abstract

A suitable three-dimensional geometrical description technique and two computer programs, MAGIC and SAM-C, were developed and demonstrated for application to the computer analysis of both the nuclear and conventional vulnerability of armored military vehicles. The geometric technique was applied, for demonstration purposes, to the M60A1 tank. A single body of geometric input target data for the M60A1 was used by the MAGIC program to address the tank from any attack angle by conventional armor-defeating projectile systems, and by the SAM-C Monte Carlo program for the determination of internal radiation dose. The radiation dose (in selected target regions) is obtained for primary neutrons, primary gammas, and secondary gammas produced by neutron interactions occurring either outside or within the vehicle. The two programs, MAGIC and SAM-C, are currently operational on both the CDC-6600 and BRL-BRLESC computers. Both programs are written in FORTRAN.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1968
Accession Number
AD0847576

Entities

People

  • Malvin H. Kalos
  • Phillip S. Mittelman
  • Robert Goldstein
  • Roger Nagel
  • Walter Guber

Organizations

  • Mathematical Applications Group

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Detectors
  • Energy Bands
  • Engineering
  • Gamma Rays
  • Geometry
  • Materials
  • Nuclear Radiation
  • Ordnance Laboratories
  • Plasma Opening Switches
  • Radiation
  • Scattering
  • Three Dimensional
  • Two Dimensional
  • United States
  • Weapon Systems

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Computer Science.
  • Nuclear and Radiation Engineering.