WitnessMan: The Software Tool to Design, Analyse and Assess a Witness Pack with Respect to Military and Medical Effects on an (un)Protected (dis)Mounted Soldier

Abstract

Witness packs are widely used to enable the characterization of fragments generated during ballistic experiments. To assess the effect of fragment impact on an exposed (dis)mounted soldier a follow-up Vulnerability/Lethality (V/L) simulation is essential. The overall process is elaborative and time consuming. This paper presents a 'proof of concept' of WitnessMan, an integrated software tool to support: * the design of the witness pack, including experimental conditions and restrictions, V/L assessment demands and financial aspects; * the in-the-field 'real-time' analysis of the exposed witness pack for a first characterisation of the fragment cloud; * the in-the-field 'real-time' human V/L assessment in terms of the military and medical effects on an exposed, (un)protected soldier. WitnessMan incorporates knowledge of many different fields of TNO research and enables the ability to adapt the witness pack configuration during the experiments to improve the fragment discrimination and thus improve the overall value of experimental research.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2006
Accession Number
ADA457172

Entities

People

  • A. Pronk
  • H. Huisjes
  • M. H. Van Klink
  • R. Kemper
  • S. G. Knijnenburg
  • Th. L. Verhagen

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Algorithms
  • Ammunition
  • Body Regions
  • Databases
  • Diameters
  • Digital Image Processing
  • Discrimination
  • Equations
  • Image Processing
  • Lethality
  • Materials
  • Measurement
  • Shape
  • Simulations
  • Three Dimensional
  • Visual Inspection

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Munitions and Ordnance Engineering
  • Systems Analysis and Design
  • Tactical Satellite Communications Systems Engineering.