Combat utility prediction

Stanislas Gabrovsek; Ian Colwill; Elias Stipidis

doi:10.1016/j.dt.2016.10.002

Combat utility prediction

Stanislas Gabrovsek
, Ian Colwill
, Elias Stipidis

University of Brighton

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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	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dt.2016.10.002
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2016

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© 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

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