LB-223 : Vulnerability/Survivability: Overview
- Design Techniques for Decreasing Vulnerability and Increasing Survivability: Vehicles Compartments and Structures
- Methods of Analysis for Vehicles
- Defense Mechanisms for Kinetic Energy (KE) Long Rods and Shaped Charges (SC)
- Effects of Obliquities
- Effects of Armors and Armor Arrays
- Effects of Spacing
- Active & Passive Armors and Arrays
- Materials Effects on Penetration
- Projectile Target Interactions
- Armors and Armor Properties
- Composites, Kevlar and Composite Armors
- Effects of Size, Confinement on SC and Explosives
- Effects of Velocity on KE and SC Designs
- Materials Effects on KE Penetrators as a Function of Velocity
- Launching Effects on SC Performance
- Pyroforic Effects; Catastrophic Effects
- Personnel Protection Considerations
- Other Protection Criteria: Chemical and Other Devices
- Environmental and Chemical Hazards
- Lessons Learned
This course is a combination of several other courses that describe some of the design considerations and techniques to obtain reduced vulnerability and increased survivability, especially for combat type vehicles.
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