Sensor Enhanced Armor Non Destructive Evaluation Laboratory

Abstract

USES OF NDE AND HEALTH MONITORING: *Health Monitoring during normal vehicle usage, before battle use or damage and performed at certain time intervals. * Determination of the severity, identification, and location of ballistic impacts to the armor while the vehicle is being used in battle. An active NDE system could tell the commander of any vulnerabilities and or what areas need repair to stay in battle. * Communication to neighboring forces integrity of armor and or severity of impacts. * Assessment of armor integrity between missions. This would be done at the depot level and would involve NDE and health monitoring to test for any armor defects or flaws as well as internal damage that could lead to armor failure. * There is a need for system integration at the armor level.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 11, 2009
Accession Number
ADA506618

Entities

People

  • Thomas J. Meitzler

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Buildings And Structures
  • Condition Based Maintenance
  • Cost Reductions
  • Engineering
  • Ground Vehicles
  • Life Cycles
  • Monitoring
  • Phased Arrays
  • Survivability
  • Systems Engineering
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Time Intervals
  • Universities
  • Vehicles
  • Waves
  • X Rays

Readers

  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.
  • Structural Health Monitoring of Composite Structures.
  • ballistics.