Quantification of the Design Relationship Between Ground Vehicle Weight and Occupant Safety Under Blast Loading

Abstract

Military ground vehicle design must consider the threat posed by underbody blasts to new vehicles and their occupants, while also accounting for weight reduction goals for improving fuel economy, mobility, and cost. A two-stage process is presented to model the blast event for simulating the vehicle response and for the occupant response. Issues including computational expense, objective function formulation, and multi-objective seating system design optimization are addressed in detail, and three different blastworthiness optimization formulations are presented and evaluated.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 2011
Accession Number
ADA541531

Entities

People

  • Michael Kokkolaras
  • Panos Y. Papalambros
  • Steven Hoffenson
  • Sudhakar Arepally

Organizations

  • United States Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Body Regions
  • Dynamic Response
  • Engineering
  • Ground Vehicles
  • Improvised Explosive Devices
  • Injury Prevention
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Medical Personnel
  • Nato
  • Simulations
  • Spinal Column
  • Spine
  • Spreadsheet Software
  • United States
  • Vehicle Design
  • Vehicles
  • Wounds And Injuries

Readers

  • Adaptive Control and Estimation with Uncertainty in Dynamic Systems.
  • Explosive Engineering.