Weapon Effect

Kinetic impact, directed energy, nuclear effects, chemical and biological contamination: 3D Research has the experience to address weapons lethality and system effectiveness.

Expected Casualty Laboratory:


3D Research Expected Casualty Laboratory predicts ground effects from falling inert debris, blast, and toxic materials.

  • Classification of Injury Type Mechanisms
  • Classification of Probability of Casualty

 

Enhanced Payload Fragmentation Assessment Laboratory :


3D Research Missile Enhanced Payload Fragmentation Lab predicts physics of breakup and enhanced lethal radius from strategic and short/medium range target and interceptor payloads.

  • HE Target Impact Physics
  • Interceptor Warhead Evaluation

 

Weapon Effect Battle Laboratory / Fragmentation Physics Lab:


  • MS Physics - Vanderbilt

    •        - Theoretical analysis of nervous system magnetic fields
           - Biophysics - Injury Analysis
           - Computational Physics

  • Ph. D. Physics Vanderbilt

    •        - Intensive Computational Physics
           - Statistical Analysis
           - Dynamics, Tracking & Discrimination
           - Nuclear Radiation

Comparison of theoretical and experimental nerve magnetic field based on theoretical model.

Fermi National Lab Experiment 623 Detector Layout

  • Advanced discrimination technology (1985 - 1989)

    •        - Lasers Lethality Radiation Effects

System Analysis comparing laser and NPB interactive discrimination

  • Combat Systems Survivability (1990 - 1994)

    •        - Impact & Fragmentation Analysis

Survivability Requirements Analysis and Impact Fragmentation analysis for proposed successor to M1A1 Abrams MBT
 

Personnel Vulnerability Laboratory:


  • National Range Standards for Personnel Hazards

    •        - Range Safety Group Risk Committee
           - Formerly Risk and Leathality Commonality Team (RALCT)
           - Personnel Injury Criteria Model (PICM)
           - Improved Personnel Vulnerabiltilty Criteria
           - Probablistic Risk Assessment Models
           - Basis of Confidence

A science which combines the physics of fragmentation, different response to the human body to different sizes and energies of impacting bodies, and available data, mostly using animal models.

 

Future 3D Research Laboratory Developments:


Areas of Focus:

  • T&E Analysis Tasks

    •        - Planning/Support/Review
           - IMTP Support
           - Impact/Fragmentation
           - Debris Propagation/Risk Assessment
           - Vulnerability Models/Criteria/PICM
  • Ongoing Development Activities

    •        - PICM
           - DRHEAT
  • Weapon Effects

    •        - SEI & T&E
           - Blast/Toxic; Structures and Vehicles
           - Laser and Radiation Effects
  • Technology Studies

    •        - Next Generation Fragment Model
           - Next Generation Propagators
           - SEI of MDA/GBI "-ilities"
           - Facilities Counter terrorism