An Integrated Environment for Army, Navy and Air Force Target Description Support

Abstract

For more than 40 years the vulnerability community has been developing analytic methods to predict the potential damage to targets from threats likely to be encountered in hostile engagements. Early methods of analysis consisted of manual calculations for bullet/target interactions. To perform a vulnerability analysis 1) a target description had to be generated. This file represented the three-space definition of geometry and coupled material information. 2) Mathematical rays, simulating bullet trajectories, were then passed through the target descriptions in order to find points-of- intersection, surface normals, line-of-sight thicknesses, and materials. 3) All of the information from step 2) was then passed to a vulnerability analysis were penetration relations and component-damage criteria were applied to calculate average system-level damage. Ammunition.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1989
Accession Number
ADA209667

Entities

People

  • Paul H. Deitz
  • Paur R. Stray R.
  • William H. Mermagen Jr.

Organizations

  • Ballistic Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Army Aviation
  • Classification
  • Computer Graphics
  • Computer Programs
  • Computer Science
  • Computer-Aided Design
  • Computers
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Geometry
  • Graphics
  • Jet Propulsion
  • Ray Tracing
  • Security
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Three Dimensional

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Explosive Engineering.
  • Missile Defense Systems.

Technology Areas

  • Space