Predicting Fragmentation Propagation Probabilities for Ammunition Stacks.
Abstract
By combining several existing models, we have developed a tool for estimating the probabilities associated with the propagation of detonation or burning between ammunition stacks. The models include the FRAGHAZ program for the Monte Carlo treatment of fragment trajectories and the accumulation of hit probabilities, the Jacobs-Roslund criterion for initiation of detonation and the ballistic limit condition for initiation of burning. We have applied this tool to artillery ammunition and missile stacks. Since the appropriate fragmentation input data was not always available, notably in the case of missiles, we developed methods of estimating this data. Single artillery round donors were shown to require a near-direct hit in order to initiate detonation in either artillery ammunition or missile acceptor stacks. Artillery ammunition donor stacks were shown to be much more lethal than missile donor stacks, and missile acceptor stacks were shown to be more vulnerable to the propagation of burning than artillery ammunition acceptor stacks. (AN)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 1996
- Accession Number
- ADA304227
Entities
People
- John Starkenberg
- Kelly J. Benjamin
- Robert B. Frey
Organizations
- United States Army Research Laboratory