Fiscal Year:
1986
Title:
SENSITIVITY
Agency / Branch:
DOD / NAVY
Contract:
N/A
Award Amount:
$42,684.00
Abstract:
THE OBJECTIVES OF PHASE 1 ARE TO ACQUIRE AND ASSEMBLE DATA ON MUNITION SENSITIVITY TO DYNAMIC INPUTS, DEVELOP DISCRETE ELEMENT CODES FOR LOADING AND REACTION OF EXPLOSIVES AND MUNITIONS, EVALUATE THE PREDICTIVE UTILITY OF THESE CODES TO PREDICT REACTION THRESHOLDS OF MUNITIONS, AND TO PLAN THE PHASE 2 PROGRAM OF TESTING AND COMPUTER MODEL IMPROVEMENT. THE GENERAL APPROACH IN PHASE 1 IS TO EVALUATE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF DISCRETE ELEMENT CODES TO PREDICT MUNITION SENSITIVITY BY FIRST ASSEMBLING SENSITIVITY DATA FROM THE NAVY, ARMY AND AIR FORCE AND THEN EXERCISING THE EXISTING AND NEWLY DEVELOPED (IN PHASE 1) CODES AGAINST THESE DATA. THE RESULTS WILL BE AN EVALUATION OF THE STATE-OF-THE-ART OF PREDICTION EFFECTIVENESS, A COMPENDIUM OF EXPLOSIVE AND MUNITION SENSITIVITY DATA, AND A PHASE 2 PLAN TO PROCURE MORE DATA AND TO IMPROVE PREDICTIVE CODES.
Principal Investigator:
Murray kornhauser
2156491462
Business Contact:
Small Business Information at Submission:
3c Systems Inc
620 Argyle Rd Wynnewood, PA 19096
EIN/Tax ID:
DUNS:
N/A
Number of Employees:
Woman-Owned:
No
Minority-Owned:
No
HUBZone-Owned:
No