Course description
The aim of the module is to provide students with the skills and knowledge to analyse targets and defeat mechanisms.
Upcoming start dates
Suitability - Who should attend?
Students must have successfully completed the Introduction to Explosives Engineering course or have relevant experience in order to take this as a Short Course for Credit.
There are no prerequisites if taken as a Standalone Short Course.
Outcome / Qualification etc.
What you will learn
On successful completion of this module you should be able to:
- Apply the principles in designing appropriate armour systems;
- Establish the critical factors in warhead design for fragmentation;
- Appraise the design and performance of directed energy weapons;
- Assess the loading characteristics from blast;
- Investigate the penetration characteristics for armour defeat;
- Critically review the efficiency of alternative protection systems.
Training Course Content
Core content
- Introduction to warheads and ammunition;
- Introduction to armour design;
- Wound ballistics and human vulnerability;
- Fragmentation theory and warheads;
- Small arms and cannon ammunition;
- Shell and projectile design;
- Targetpenetration and shock events covering subsonic to hydrodynamicregimes;
- Shaped charge and EFP warhead design;
- KE ammunition and penetrator design;
- Mine threat and damage mechanisms;
- Complex armour, spacing, obliquity, disposition and failure mechanisms;
- Characterisation andtesting of materialsfor high strain rate loading;
- Blast effects, blast-structure interactions including internal detonations;
- Terminal ballistics demonstration.
Course delivery details
Course structure
Lectures (taught and interactive), tutorials and range demonstrations.
Request info
Cranfield University
Cranfield is a specialist postgraduate university that is a global leader for education and transformational research in technology and management. We have many world-class, large-scale facilities, including our own global research airport, which offers a unique environment for transformational education...