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Credit where the methods come from, and a record that they come from published open literature rather than from a restricted data set. Listing a work means weaponeer.io implements methods described there. It does not mean the authors reviewed or endorse this product.

The value of the workbench is the assembly: those models, wired so you can change a payload and read Gurney, blast, penetration, fly-out, and JFIRE names without rebuilding the spreadsheet. Legal limits of that assembly are on the Disclaimer.

Textbooks

  • Paul W. Cooper

    Explosives Engineering

    Wiley-VCH. Charge, case, explosives practice, and the Gurney framework as taught in open engineering courses.

  • Morris R. Driels

    Weaponeering: An Introduction

    AIAA. Conventional-weapon effectiveness, the weaponeering process, and the language of a weaponeering solution.

  • Morris R. Driels

    Advanced Weaponeering

    AIAA. Deeper effectiveness, delivery error, and target-vulnerability methods used in the engagement tabs.

Classic methods and laboratory reports

  • R. W. Gurney

    The Initial Velocities of Fragments from Bombs, Shells and Grenades

    BRL Report 405 (1943). Cylinder, open-face, and finite-length Gurney velocity.

  • N. F. Mott / Mott–Linfoot

    Fragmentation statistics

    Natural fragment mass distributions used when the case is not scored or packed.

  • G. F. Kinney and K. J. Graham

    Explosive Shocks in Air

    Scaled distance, incident and reflected overpressure, and specific impulse.

  • Ballistic Research Laboratory

    Project THOR residual-velocity equations

    Published fragment residual velocity through plates (the THOR tab).

  • M. J. Forrestal; A. Tate

    Rigid and eroding penetration

    Open Sandia / journal literature for ogive projectiles and eroding rods.

  • G. Birkhoff, D. P. MacDougall, E. M. Pugh, and G. Taylor

    Explosives with Lined Cavities

    Journal of Applied Physics 19 (1948). Ideal shaped-charge jet, with a published standoff efficiency on top.

  • Huang / Felix; Lloyd

    Axial Gurney rarefaction and finite-length cylinder

    Open treatments of V(x) along the charge and the D/2L end-loss on bulk Gurney velocity.

  • Nurick and others

    Impulsive structural response

    Published P–i rupture hyperbolas for plates and shells (Structural and Local Blast tabs).

  • Åkesson

    Fragment hit probability

    PI = 1 − exp(−ρ A) on hazardous fragment density, as used for JFIRE RED.

Public manuals and formats

  • JFIRE

    FM 3-09.32 / MCRP 3-16.6A / NTTP 3-09.2 / AFTTP(I) 3-2.6 (December 2007)

    Public joint publication. Names RED, MSD, danger close, and CDE. The workbench computes those distances from the active payload; it does not look up classified tables.

  • JTCG/ME · ARL-TN-541

    ZDATA format

    Public technical note describing polar fragment zones, mass groups, and shape factor K.

  • U.S. Army TM 43-0001-28 and similar open catalogues

    Literature envelopes

    Published outer geometry used to fit the 155 mm M107 example. Not a reproduction of restricted firing tables.

  • BRL-CAD (U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory; now open source)

    Constructive solid geometry and nirt-style shotlines

    The Target tabs use a BRL-CAD-shaped representation (rpp, rcc, sph and GIFT-style regions) and can export MGED Tcl ASCII for asc2g. Geometry and a shotline language only — not an AJEM remaining-capability run and not a certified Pk.

Academy and conference papers

  • Open academy, laboratory, and conference literature

    Gurney cylinder velocity, fragment spray, blast scaling, and penetration

    Papers in that public record, and works cited from the textbooks above. Each workbench tab states the relation it implements.