Automated Explosive Site Planner: a software system for siting explosives

Attention is given to the Automated Explosive Site Planner (AESP), a software system developed at Headquarters Air Force Logistics Command (HQ AFLC) to tackle many of the problems encountered with developing an explosives site plan and completing AFLC Form 333, `Explosives Authorization For Sited Munitions Facility´. This system consists of three separate, but coordinated, programs that maintain a site database containing information on structures in and around the explosives storage area; establish minimum quantity-distance separations between the proposed structure and surrounding structures based on Air Force regulation 127-100, chapter 5; identify previously sited structures whose maximum net explosive weights must be reduced due to the introduction/placement of the proposed structure; and complete AFLC Form 333. Programs 1 and 3 of this system were designed using conventional techniques and coded in a conventional programming language (TURBO Pascal). Program 2 employs artificial intelligence techniques and was coded using expert system development software (M.1)