A novel method for determination of lethal radius for high-explosive artillery projectiles

Received: 04 Apr 2021, Revised: 25 Apr 2021, Accepted: 06 Sep 2021, Available online: 08 Sep 2021, Version of Record: 08 Sep 2021

Alan Catovic a, Elvedin Kljuno b
a
Mechanical Engineering Faculty (Defense Technology Department), University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
b
Mechanical Engineering Faculty, University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Abstract


A new model has been defined that enables the estimation of the lethal radius (radius of efficiency) of HE (High Explosive) artillery projectiles against human targets. The model is made of several modules: CAD (Computer Aided Design) modeling, fragment mass distribution estimation, fragment initial velocity prediction, fragment trajectory calculation, effective fragment density estimation, and high explosive projectile lethal radius estimation. The results were compared with the experimental results obtained based on tests in the arena used in our country, and the agreement of the results was good. This model can be used in any terminal-ballistics scenario for high explosive projectiles since it is general, parametric, fast and relatively easy to implement.

Keywords
High explosive projectiles
Lethal radius
Fragments
Modeling



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