- Author
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Coleman, J. H., III
- Title
- Joint Life Fire Test of the F-15 Crew Station: Crew Vulnerability Assessment of Fragments Threats. Interim Report. April 1992-March 1993.
- Coporate
- Air Force Material Command, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH
- Report
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AL/CF-TR-1993-0186,
March 1993,
202 p.
- Distribution
- LIMITED DISTRIBUTION to U.S. Government agencies only Available from National Technical Information Services
- Keywords
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fire tests; srivival; injuries
- Abstract
- This report is a comprehensive study of the procedures used to assess pilot's vulnerability to fragments in an aircraft crew station. Emphasis is on the scientific methodology used, and the assessment of a pilot's risk and injury severity to fragments. The development of the scientific methodology is the result of efforts employed on an actual F-15 live fire test. This methodology determined incapacitation and survivability by characterizing fragments' impact dynamics on a human surrogate and using that data in computer simulations to determine injury. The human surrogate used was a fragment capture manikin named the Aerospace Incapacitation Response Manikin (AIRMAN). The AIRMAN was designed to collect data on the mass, velocity, direction, and size of fragments that penetrated its material. The AIRMAN data was used as the input for a computerized wound simulator, named ComputerMan, being developed by the Army Research Laboratory at Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD. The wound simulator provided information about the effects of impacting fragments on the human body. This report provides information on scientific procedures and techniques, types and characteristics of fragment exposure, lokely injuries, and predictions of survivability.