Safety assessment for personnel within defence infrastructure
conference paper
Safety of personnel, relevant threat scenarios and structural protection are key issues of a new four-year research programme initiated by the Dutch MOD and carried out by TNO. The aim is to develop a balanced methodology to assess the safety of personnel, in relation to ammunition and explosion effects. The scope is restricted to personnel within Defence infrastructure.
The research programme consists of modules to quantify the “donor”: the explosion and ammunition effect; the “acceptor”: (structure) consequences, i.e. the structural protection level and the potential secondary threat by acceptor damage, the injury to personnel in- and outside the acceptor building.
Special attention will be given to the integration and interpretation of the consequences of the different explosion and ammunition effects. To this end, probabilistic techniques will be applied to build the safety assessment methodology.
The paper starts with an outline of the research programme, followed by a description of a case study that has been performed during the first year of the programme. This case study was meant as a first application of the intended approach . It also provided the possibility to identify the consistency of data and knowledge of all the elements in the chain of events from “donor” to the personnel as “acceptor”.
The research programme consists of modules to quantify the “donor”: the explosion and ammunition effect; the “acceptor”: (structure) consequences, i.e. the structural protection level and the potential secondary threat by acceptor damage, the injury to personnel in- and outside the acceptor building.
Special attention will be given to the integration and interpretation of the consequences of the different explosion and ammunition effects. To this end, probabilistic techniques will be applied to build the safety assessment methodology.
The paper starts with an outline of the research programme, followed by a description of a case study that has been performed during the first year of the programme. This case study was meant as a first application of the intended approach . It also provided the possibility to identify the consistency of data and knowledge of all the elements in the chain of events from “donor” to the personnel as “acceptor”.
TNO Identifier
183603
Source title
12th International Symposium on Interaction of the Effects of Munitions with Structures, ISIEMS, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 13-16 September 2005
Collation
13 p.
Pages
28
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