Maritime Lethality Analysis Toolset

The overall objective of this effort is to develop an innovative physics-based lethality toolset that can analyze the effects of multiple weapon damage mechanisms against maritime targets. Damage mechanisms of initial interest to the program include the following: internal flooding, structural failures, internal and external blast, penetration and perforation from fragments, cavitation damage, cutting and severing damage to components, shaped charge and explosively formed projectile damage.To address the project requirements, K&C is proposing to develop a Maritime Lethality Analysis Toolset (MLAT) software application which combines existing and new computational models for each of the damage mechanism into a vulnerability and lethality software framework called Endgame Framework (EF). The software will be composed of: 1) a target generator to create ship target models, 2) a GUI which can be used to setup a scene with a desired target and weapon combination, 3) a suite of computational modules that can predict damage mechanisms, and 4) a suite of output visualization features and post-processing tools.