The Development of an Automated Armor Data Base - Phase 1

Abstract

This technical report is one of a set of three reports to be generated as a subtask under the project entitled Development of an Improved High Hard Armor Steel (MIL-A-46100) funded by the PM, Survivability (TACOM). The design of an Armor Steel Database to serve as a repository for MIL-A-46100 armor steel ballistically tested by the U.S. Combat Systems Test Activity (CSTA) is described. The microcomputer hardware and software used to accomplish this task is delineated. This microcomputer system is capable of being directly linked to the remotely situated CSTA host computer system to facilitate the efficient acquisition of additional ballistic test data. Reports representing the current contents of the Armor Steel Database are included as an example of the output available to the user (The producers and fabricators were removed from these reports to allow for unlimited distribution). However, the manual input of data by the authors has been temporarily suspended until CSTA implements direct access to their automated ballistic ranges. The application of this database for the compilation and analysis of MIL-A-46100 data will be appropriately included in the overall report summarizing all three subtasks being generated for this project.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1993
Accession Number
ADA270708

Entities

People

  • Richard J. Squillacioti
  • Robert C. Grubinskas

Organizations

  • United States Army Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Air Force
  • Armor Plate
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Damage Assessment
  • Databases
  • Engineering
  • Host Computers
  • Information Processing
  • Materials
  • Materials Science
  • Military Research
  • Personal Computers
  • Standards
  • Storage
  • Survivability

Readers

  • Computer Science.
  • Metallurgy