Modeling Hypervelocity Impact for Kill Enhancement of Ballistic Missile Warheads

摘要

Scope of work: A computer code was developed to model various 'endgame' encounter configuration scenarios between the EKV and the IBM to quantify and characterize single impacts in the TBM warhead. Numerical simulations using a commercial hydro-code were conducted to model specific single impact scenarios. A damage index directly calculated from simulation results based on the penetration of the projectile and the displacement of the target was developed to quantify the damage inflicted by each impact. The quantified damage of each single case scenario represents a measure of the lethality for each configuration. An Artificial Neural Network (ANN) was developed as a rapid solution model to predict damage indices for a wide range of single impact configurations as a result of the Endgame encounters.