Safe distances

Israel David

doi:10.1002/nav.6

Safe distances

Israel David

Department of Industrial Engineering and Management

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This work highlights the problem in military operations of setting safety limits for friendly forces, neutral forces, or civilians, to avoid sustaining unnecessary casualties both in wartime and in training. We present and investigate an analytic model which both enables the quantitative understanding of the inherent problems, and which furnishes a reasonably flexible tool in the hands of the analyst. Characteristic numerical results are displayed and analyzed: They show in particular that prevailing crude approximations are inadequate.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	259-269
Number of pages	11
Journal	Naval Research Logistics
Volume	48
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/nav.6
State	Published - 1 Jun 2001

Keywords

Damage functions
Firing theory
Fragmentation
Safe distances
Support fire

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Modeling and Simulation
Ocean Engineering
Management Science and Operations Research

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