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Computer Implementations with 3D Simulations of Models for Quick Estimations of Fragments Trajectories, Penetrations and Safety Evaluations Due to Detonations of Explosives

Lior Banai

Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences 2012, 88(5), 351-366. https://doi.org/10.3970/cmes.2012.088.351

Abstract

The explosive Engineering field is a costly one in which not every organization can effort the time and money it takes to performed field tests on its explosives. The purpose of this article is to present a program that was developed in the Israeli Navy for performance estimations and safety issues of warheads and explosives. With a relative small developing time one can create a tool that gives preliminary results in a few minutes without the need to design and order a field tests or run finite elements analyses. By implementing a few known models, in this tool, the user can evaluate, graphically, the hazardous areas around the detonation point, determine the fragments penetrations of plates (or decks) and their densities. Theoretically, this allows the user to specify requirements from future explosives designs. Additionally this tool can assist in defining the preferable placements of personal and equipment/ammunitions in a giving area by creating a safe/no safe map of known explosives used by the organization or enemy forces so it can be better prepared against enemy explosives.

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