Title

Real time physically-based Modeling and simulation of cratering and fragmentation of terrain

Authors

Authors

N. Rami;M. D. Proctor

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Abbreviated Journal Title

Simul.-Trans. Soc. Model. Simul. Int.

Keywords

dynamic terrain; simulation; physics-based modeling; explosion; simulation; real time system; terrain database; Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications; Computer Science, ; Software Engineering

Abstract

Cratering and fragmentation of terrain due to explosions are the behaviors of interest in this effort. We propose a physically-based approach to model the explosion event and the process of terrain fragmentation resulting in the formation of craters. Since blast waves are the destructive components of explosions, and propagate into materials as stress waves, geology has been introduced into the terrain model. Our methodology is based on voxel modeling and introduces a new method that uses connected fragments to model terrain with the geology. We have used mathematical and visual data from a real explosion experiment in a layered terrain to validate our model. Using our model, explosions can be placed anywhere in the simulation and will result in a realistic output in real time.

Journal Title

Simulation-Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International

Volume

83

Issue/Number

12

Publication Date

1-1-2007

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

830

Last Page

841

WOS Identifier

WOS:000254817700004

ISSN

0037-5497

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