Reassessing the Representative Heuristic of the Plywood Ballistic Mannequin Used in Live-Fire Testing

Abstract

This endeavor addressed 2 efforts: 1) to determine if the materials of construction of the current plywood ballistic mannequin (or manikin) should be more closely controlled and 2) to revise the US Army Ballistic Research Laboratory plywood ballistic mannequin to more closely reflect the current US Army male population. Despite the changeability of materials of construction and design of the plywood ballistic mannequin, no previous US Army effort has ever been made to quantify this variability and its possible effect on live-fire testing analyses. The US Army Research Laboratory s Survivability/Lethality Analysis Directorate recommends a revised plywood ballistic mannequin be employed in future live-fire testing when US Army personnel vulnerability is to be assessed.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 2015
Accession Number
ADA620168

Entities

People

  • Linda L. Moss
  • Matthew B. Kaufman

Organizations

  • United States Army Research Laboratory

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Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Applied Mathematics
  • Army Personnel
  • Construction
  • Data Sets
  • Electronic Mail
  • Engineers
  • Human Population
  • Lethality
  • Materials
  • Measurement
  • Mechanical Properties
  • Military Personnel
  • Military Research
  • Modulus Of Elasticity
  • Photographs
  • Vulnerability

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  • Explosive Engineering.
  • Systems Analysis and Design
  • ballistics.