Munitions Lifecycle Technologies
Abstract
This focus area supports improving the Department’s ability to understand, measure, predict, and mitigate safety and reliability problems caused by materials aging and degradation in weapons systems. Current stockpile assessment methods typically focus on addressing materials aging and reliability problems after they occur, rather than anticipating and avoiding future problems or failure mechanisms. The overall objective of this work is to develop a toolset of computational models that are able to quantitatively predict materials aging processes and ultimately improve the long-term reliability of weapons systems, subassemblies, and/or components. These objectives are achieved by: identifying aging mechanisms, quantifying the rates at which those aging mechanisms occur, developing predictive models, and using these models to predict the munitions stockpile reliability. An additional objective of this work is to develop technologies and methodologies to enable munitions health management and condition-based maintenance. The specific projects in the munitions lifecycle technologies focus area are: - Predictive materials aging including: solder interconnect reliability, corrosion of electronics, and adhesive degradation. - Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) reliability. - Military use of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) electronics. - Complex system health assessment.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2015
- Source ID
- a417356682b51e44bb1b80540fc04a31