A Tutorial for Using the Monte Carlo Method in Vehicle Ballistic Vulnerability Calculations

Abstract

The expected value of incapacitation of military vehicles to a ballistic threat is often formulated as multiple integrals of high dimensionality. Such multiple integrals can often be evaluated most efficiently by using the Monte Carlo method if a level of confidence in the calculated answer of five percent or so is acceptable. A brief tutorial is provided which outlines this use of the Monte Carlo method. Sample problems are devised where the integrands are constructed from simple analytic functions, and the integrals are estimated by using the outlined procedures. The calculated answers to these problems are compared with their known closed form solutions.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1981
Accession Number
ADA104432

Entities

People

  • William Beverly

Organizations

  • Ballistic Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Analytic Functions
  • Armored Vehicles
  • Commerce
  • Computer Programs
  • Equations
  • Incapacitation
  • Integral Equations
  • Integrals
  • Military Vehicles
  • Monte Carlo Method
  • New York
  • Perforation
  • Probability
  • Random Variables
  • Sampling
  • United States
  • Vehicles

Readers

  • Adaptive Control and Estimation with Uncertainty in Dynamic Systems.
  • Calculus or Mathematical Analysis
  • Munitions and Ordnance Engineering