Ballistic Flash Characterization: Penetration and Back-Face Flash.

Accession Number

ADA559165

Publication Date

Mar 2012

Media Count

68p

Personal Author

M. J. Koslow

Abstract

The Air Force is extremely concerned with the safety of its people, especially those who are flying aircraft. Aircrew members flying combat missions are concerned with the chance that a fragment from an exploding threat device may penetrate into the airframe to possibly ignite a fire onboard the aircraft. One concern for vulnerability revolves around a flash that may occur when a projectile strikes and penetrates an aircraft's fuselage. When certain fired rounds strike the airframe, they break into fragments called spall. Spall and other fragmentation from an impact often gain enough thermal energy to oxidize the materials involved. This oxidation causes a flash. To help negate these incidents, analysts must be able to predict the flash that can occur when a projectile strikes an aircraft. This research directly continues AFIT work for the 46th Test Group, Survivability Analysis Flight, by examining models to predict the likelihood of penetration of a fragment fired at a target. Empirical live-fire fragment test data are used to create an empirical model of a flash event. The resulting model provides an initial back-face flash modeling capability that can be implemented in joint survivability analysis models.

Keywords

Air force
Aircraft fires
Airframes
Ammunition fragments
Back-face flash
Ballistic flash characterization
Ballistics
Data bases
Empirical modeling
Firing tests(Ordnance)
Flash videos
Fragmentation
High velocity fragments
Impact flash
Live-fire test data
Penetration
Probability
Projectiles
Spallation
Statistical analysis
Survivability
Theses
Video frames
Vulnerability


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Source Agency

Non Paid ADAS

NTIS Subject Category

51C - Aircraft
72F - Statistical Analysis
79A - Ammunition, Explosives, & Pyrotechnics
79E - Detonations, Explosion Effects, & Ballistics

Corporate Author

Air Force Inst. of Tech., Wright-Patterson AFB, OH. Graduate School of Engineering and Management.

Document Type

Thesis

Title Note

Master's thesis.

NTIS Issue Number

1219

Contract Number

N/A

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