Abstract
The majority of allied casualties from recent conflicts were caused by blast wave and fragments perforation damage from Improvised Explosive Devices. Survivability to this type of threat is a critical factor to consider for land platform design. This paper proposes an original approach to platform survivability assessment using a combination of Agent-Based (AB) simulation and Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) to predict the consequences of IED fragment impacts on the platform operational status. As a demonstration, this approach is applied to the comparison of different platform architectures to gain insight into the optimisation of the platform component topology.
Original language | English |
---|---|
Pages (from-to) | 446-463 |
Number of pages | 18 |
Journal | Defence Technology |
Volume | 12 |
Issue number | 6 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Dec 2016 |
Bibliographical note
© 2016 The Authors. Production and hosting by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of China Ordnance Society. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).Keywords
- Mission
- Survivability
- Simulation
- Agent-based
- Fault-tree analysis
- Platform architecture