Improve Ballistic Test and Evaluation Methodology

Abstract

Ballistic test and evaluation of body armor is of great priority for the US Army to meet current operational needs. The current experimental design process centers on standardized threat level classifications and a baseline ballistic limit velocity, V50; both measures originate from the National Institute of Justice circa 1979. The measures are complex, statistical in nature, and yield large quantities of data. A methodology incorporating response surface techniques improves ballistic test and evaluation from a pass fail analysis of data to iterative, directional experiments with design intelligence. Without this mathematical direction, it is extremely difficult to analyze the multitude of factors and their interaction effects in order to attain product improvement. We provide a ballistic experimental design example to demonstrate the usefulness of this methodology and identify the potential for its application in future armor developments.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 2006
Accession Number
ADA445599

Entities

People

  • John Halstead
  • Shane Sullivan

Organizations

  • United States Military Academy

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Analysis Of Variance
  • Armor
  • Body Armor
  • Data Analysis
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Engineering
  • Experimental Design
  • Information Science
  • Materials
  • Mathematical Models
  • Operations Research
  • Production Engineering
  • Supervised Machine Learning
  • Systems Engineering
  • Test And Evaluation
  • United States
  • United States Military Academy

Fields of Study

  • Education

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Systems Analysis and Design
  • ballistics.