Predicting Fragmentation Propagation Probabilities for Ammunition Stacks

Abstract

By combining several existing models, we have developed a tool for estimating probabilities associated with the propagation of detonation, burning, and mechanical damage 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 a residual velocity condition for initiation of burning. We have applied this tool to stacks of artillery projectiles and missiles. 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 projectile donors were shown to require a near-direct hit to initiate detonation in either artillery projectile or missile acceptor stacks. Artillery projectile 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 projectile acceptor stacks.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1996
Accession Number
ADA516735

Entities

People

  • John Starkenberg
  • Kelly J. Benjamin
  • Robert B. Frey

Organizations

  • United States Army Research Laboratory

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Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accidents
  • Ammunition
  • Artillery
  • Artillery Ammunition
  • Energetic Materials
  • Explosions
  • Explosives
  • High Explosives
  • Hit Probabilities
  • Insensitive Explosives
  • Materials
  • Packaging
  • Projectiles
  • Propellants
  • Trajectories
  • Vulnerability
  • Weapons

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