The Effect of Sensitivity on Simply Ordered Safe-Arm Strategies

Abstract

This report amplifies and extends the theory of safe-arming shown in Ballistic Research Laboratory Technical Report ARBRL-TR-02444 -- The Worst-Case Mathematical theory of Safe-Arming -- by Denis A. Silvia, by introducing a method for computing the effect of sensitivities on a s/a system's safety. This method permits the quantitative analysis of how the sensitivity of an s/a system's input variables can be manipulated to maximize s/a performance. Using the new method a microcomputer program has been developed which permits easy analysis to see the effect of different sensitivity strategies, which as weak links - how many are best, how weak they should be, where they should be placed, etc. Some surprising results are reported which will provide s/a designers with valuable insights into where design resources are best invested. Keywords: Safing and arming(Ordnance), Fuzes(Ordnance), Explosives, Detonators, and Warheads.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1986
Accession Number
ADA172514

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People

  • Denis A. Silvia

Organizations

  • Ballistic Research Laboratory

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Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Army Aviation
  • Commerce
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Engineering
  • Equations
  • Munitions
  • Personal Computers
  • Probability
  • Procedures (Computers)
  • Safety
  • Safety Analysis
  • Sensitivity
  • Sequences
  • Standards
  • Weapons

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