Sensor Enhanced Armor Non Destructive Evaluation Laboratory

USES OF NDE AND HEALTH MONITORING: *Health Monitoring during normal vehicle usage, before battle use or damage and performed at certain time intervals. * Determination of the severity, identification, and location of ballistic impacts to the armor while the vehicle is being used in battle. An active NDE system could tell the commander of any vulnerabilities and or what areas need repair to stay in battle. * Communication to neighboring forces integrity of armor and or severity of impacts. * Assessment of armor integrity between missions. This would be done at the depot level and would involve NDE and health monitoring to test for any armor defects or flaws as well as internal damage that could lead to armor failure. * There is a need for system integration at the armor level.
Presented at NDIA's Ground Vehicle Systems Engineering and Technology Symposium (GVSETS), held in Troy, MI, on 17-22 Aug 2009. Document consists entirely of briefing charts.