Patent ID: 8751201

Claim:
A method for characterizing debris comprising the steps of: creating a dynamic scenario using a hydrocode modeling program for an object subject to catastrophic fracture into a plurality of debris fragments; producing a SPCTH file for first and second cells within a plurality of cells composed of at least one material, each cell having physical characteristics that include center spatial location and side length s, said first and second cells having a center-to-center distance d, said material including mechanical characteristics, said plurality of cells constituting a piece of said debris fragments; translating said SPCTH file to a post-processing DATAOUT file using a SPYPLT program, said DATAOUT file including a number of pieces and physical parameters of each said piece as piece information; identifying connectivity of said first and second cells to form said piece of said plurality of debris fragments, said connectivity being determined by whether said distance corresponds to d=s√{square root over (3)}; storing said connectivity within information in an integer array; storing said piece information in a cell storage array, said piece information being conglomerated as debris information; and displaying said debris information.