Abstract: This paper addresses a computational procedure to assess the lethality of kinetic energy projectile warheads against tactical ballistic missile payloads with an innovative and rational damage metric. The individual lethality ...

Abstract: The Comet Nucleus Tour (CONTOUR) is one of NASA's Discovery series missions in which a single spacecraft will be launched in July 2002 to journey to the coma of comets Encke and Schwassmann-Wachmann-3 at velocities of 28.2 ...

Abstract: This paper describes a generalized and rational computational approach to qualitatively measure the level of damage generated by projectiles impacting a system of bumper plates. A single impact damage index (SIDI) model ...