End-to-end System level M&S Tool for Underbody Blast Events

Abstract

The underbody blast event is a very complex and highly transient phenomenon very short duration and extremely high G values. Blast modeling and simulation tools, processes and best practices are leveraged from the automotive industry to assess blast survivability vehicle performance. Occupant injury risk assessment tools and injury metrics for underbody blast events are based off of automotive standards and need further investigation / validation. Current M&S tools are beneficial for guiding the vehicle design and development process, and are being evaluated for supporting Test & Evaluation. Advanced full vehicle, system level design tools are key enablers to: Assessing Occupant Injury Risk, Developing new protection technologies, Improving current force vehicles for current threats, and Designing new vehicles from the Inside Out (occupant-centric).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 2010
Accession Number
ADA550921

Entities

People

  • Ravi S. Thyagarajan

Organizations

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

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Automotive Industry
  • Back Injuries
  • Best Practices
  • Engineering
  • Ground Vehicles
  • Health Services
  • Improvised Explosive Devices
  • Military Acquisition
  • Military Hospitals
  • Risk
  • Risk Analysis
  • Seat Belts
  • Spinal Column
  • Spinal Injuries
  • Systems Engineering
  • Vehicle Design

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Explosive Engineering.
  • Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.