Tools

APT uses and has developed a variety of software, models, and analytical tools for evaluating hazards and risks in the areas of Explosives Safety, Flight Safety, Ground Safety, and Environmental Engineering.

APT Explosives Safety Models

Primary Flight Safety Models

  • DebRA – Debris Risk Assessment
  • Impact – Debris Prediction Program
  • MILS – Multiple Impact Location Simulator
  • GenCon – Aircraft Risk Assessment
  • STK – Satellite Toolkit
  • SARA – Satellite Risk Assessment
  • Risk Based Range Assessment Tool
  • Surface Danger Zone (SDZ) Calculator
  • DASP – Debris Analysis for Satellite Programs
  • TVIP – Turning Vehicle Impact Predictor
  • Ascent – Trajectory Modeling, End Condition Targeting, Optimization Capabilities
  • LiMAns – Link Margin Analysis
  • GRM – Debris Risk Assessment
  • BREEZE
  • AFTOX

APT Internal Launch Area Risk Models

  • TRIAL – Trajectories for Risk Investigations
    At Launch
  • FRAG – Solid Rocket Motor Fragmentation
  • FAIL – Vehicle Failure Filter
  • PADPOP – Pad Populations
  • RAFIP – Random-Attitude Failure Impact Points
  • SHAPE5 – Shaping Constants for Mode 5 Impact Distribution
  • DAMP – Facility Damage and Personnel Injury
  • DISP – Impact Locations and Dispersions for DAMP
  • Contour – Generate Equi-valued Contour Lines
  • GenDeb – Generates Debris Classes for Liquid-Propellant

APT Internal Overflight Risk Models

  • CORAL – Collective Overflight Risk Analysis Tool
  • CORIDORE GIS – Corridor Risk Estimation
  • RAPIEC – Random-Attitude PI and EC
  • TRAX – Trajectories for Risk Analysis Extended
  • GreenN – Computations of Green Numbers
  • AC-HIT – Aircraft Hazards from Impact
  • HITP – Ship Hit Probability Computations
  • PIRAT – Propellant Impact Response
    A
    ssessment Team
  • INCCA – Interactive Coordinate Calculator

3rd Party Overflight Risk Models

  • POST – Program To Optimize Simulated Trajectories
  • ALE3D – Arbitrary Lagrange/Eulerian Hydrodynamics Code
  • TAOS – Trajectory Analysis and Optimization
    S
    oftware

Secondary Flight Safety Models

  • DBRISK – Distribution-Based Risk
  • Minimax – A process of minimizing
    the maximum risk
  • VeSA – Velocity Search Algorithm
  • ASAP – Artificial Satellite Analysis Program
  • Test Requirements Allocation Database
  • CASA – Aurora & Horizons

Flight Safety Utilities

  • PACISLD – A plot file of Pacific islands to supplement existing world map plot files.
  • POPDb – Population Database is a database of Pacific islands which complements the PACISLD plot file.

GIS Mapping

  • ArcView GIS – Computer Aided Design package by Autodesk Inc. used widely throughout government and industry

APT Point of Contact

Bob Baker, 256.327.3373
aptinfo@apt-research.com