Modeling and Analysis of Uncertainties in Survivability and Vulnerability Assessment.

Abstract

Survivability and vulnerability (S/V) assessment of protective structures involves many uncertainties. Most of the uncertainties arise because of complexity in the weapons effects phenomena and limited data base. Evaluation and analysis of S/V are further complicated by inherent variability (e.g., material behavior, threat scenario, explosive effects) and imprecision (e.g., definition of damage, failure) in every component of the assessment chain. The importance of uncertainties has always been recognized in S/V assessment. However, until very recently, the treatment of uncertainties is limited to statistical techniques. Uncertainties are modeled when it is uncertain. This approach is used to treat uncertainty in the analysis models as well. Keywords: Buried structures; Stochastic equations; Blast; Shock.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1986
Accession Number
ADA167630

Entities

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  • Felix S. Wong

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Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Civil Engineering
  • Cognition
  • Computational Science
  • Data Science
  • Databases
  • Delphi Method
  • Differential Equations
  • Equations Of Motion
  • Finite Element Analysis
  • Fokker Planck Equations
  • Information Science
  • Mechanics
  • Probabilistic Models
  • Random Variables
  • Statistics
  • Surveys
  • Vulnerability

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  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Explosive Engineering.
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