Destruction Guide

Revamping and clarifying the often vague Destruction levels We use in Calculations

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3 types Deformation / Structural failure

Pulling apart also known as the Tensile strength of the Material ( Rock 9.9MPa )

branding a material which the Shear strength and squishing a material which is the Compressive strength , which all 3 doesn't necessarily result in the material being made into multiple pieces ( Rock 8MPa or 69MPa respectfully)

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VSBW takes the MPa of the materials and and converts them to Joule by displaying the Pressure through a length of 1 meter and for example Rock 8 MPa = 8 million newton per meter square and 8 million newton per square meter displayed over a meter is equal to 8 million joules and as we have a square meter going through another meter that defines a volume of 1meter cubed and we have 8 million joule per meter cubed but as 1 meter cube is also 1 million centimeter cubed it is further converted to 8 joules per centimeter

but because of the of this simplification it obscures what is happening with the modes of failure

using shear strength as an example

say a 1m^3 of steel is moving at a speed that makes one of its areas of 1m^2 connect with a 1m by 1m by 2m stone wall with slightly higher force than the shear strength of stone than when it makes contact the middle of the 2m length and the stone wall under goes shear the steel and now 1by 1 by1 m cube stone keep moving but at a greatly deceased speed compare to the starting speed of the steel cube

but if the cube is large say 3m by 3m by 1m than to shear the middle of the stone wall than we need the shear strength for each side of the 1m by 1m by 1m cube in contact with 3m by 3m by 1m stone wall which would be 4 sides or 4 m^2 and would require the steel cube to have 4x the shear strength of stone to punch through the wall

and if you try to separate a stone cube from the middle of a larger cube you would have to break apart the cubes around it some connecting to 3 other cube others connecting to 4 or 5 if you count the middle cube and when you get to the middle cube it would take 6x the type of failure mode relative to trying to separate 2 cubes from each other on

modes of failure doesn't necessarily equate to a level of damage i.e. how big or small some material is broken into, so what we will be doing is going with the the most applicable  failure mode which is tensile strength as compression and shearing are very circumstantial , which is 9.9 mpa for Rock, and multiplying it for the increase of area of the smaller the piece compared to the larger piece , a 1m^3 cube has an area of 6m^2 well the same volume of 1cm^3 cubes is 600m^2

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VSBW Fragmentation is equal to the shear strength (Rock 8 J/cm^3 or 8MPa) , Our Fragmentation destruction level will be base line tensile strength (9.9 J/cm^3 or 9.9 MPa )

For VSBW and our own standard this level should be used when Fragments are Very large be 1-10m in range or greater note that the further that way from 1m the more of an over estimate it will be , for our standard the larger the pieces the more feasible it is just to calculate the area of the of the fragmented pieces and use that as the average for the whole of the volume of the original un-destroyed thing

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VSBW Violent Fragmentation is equal to the low end Compressive strength ( Rock 69 J/cm^3 or 69MPa ), Our Violent Fragmentation destruction level will be reducing a 1m^3 of material into a 5cm cubes which is 120m^2 / 6m^2 which is a 20x increase the surface area (Rock 198 J / cm^3 or 198 MPa )

should be use when fragments are small between 5cm-1m in range or when Large fragments are launched far away , if they are lunched far enough a kinetic energy calculation my be called for as a more accurate average of Joules per the volume if speed of the objection can be determined

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VSBW Pulverization is equal to the yield Compressive strength which is when the compression of the material results in splitting (Rock 214MPa ) , Our Pulverization Destruction level will be reducing a 5cm cube of a material to 1cm^3 cubes 750cm^2 /150cm^2 which is a 5x increase in the surface area (Rock 990 J / cm^3 or 990 MPa )

should be used when objects size are to hard to measure because they are to small and are far less then 1cm or when things are stated to be turned to anything that can be described as a powder or sand , the size of very coarse sand is around 1mm^3 which compared to 1cm^2 ( 6000mm^2 / 600mm^2 ) would be a 10x increase or 9,900 j/cm^3 well over the Melting energy of Rock so if you can punch a pebble into sand you would just turn it to glass

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Melting / Energy of Fusion is equal to the energy required to turn a Material from solid to Liquid ( Rock 6,174.5 MPa )

at this point and at Pulverization it is so likely that all the Material was ejected from the effected area that from this point on ward these destruction values should be use when the remnant of the remaining material be it with in the area or the perimeter is liquid or have clear signs of liquidification

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Vaporization / Sublimation is equal to the energy required to turn a martial from solid to Gas ( Rock 25,700 MPa )

what is meant by "Vaporization " in the power scaling community is actually " Sublimation" it should only be use when it is out right stated that what has happen was " Solid to Gas " and is not contradicted which means when there is Zero remnant left in an effect area and lesser destruction levels can not be seen in during or in the aftermath of the destruction which is what would contradicts the validity of the statement , if they can be seen than as an average by talking a estimation from them other destruction levels we can calculate the volume that would be sublimated in the case of an attack that an intensity gradient

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Atomization / splitting to the unsplittable is the energy required to turn a martial into free floating Atoms that are not connected to other Atoms (Rock 30,852.2MPa)

should only be used when out right stated and not contradicted

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Subatomic Destruction / splitting the unsplittable is the energy required to reduce all the atoms of a material to the component Elementary particle of the atoms (Rock 5.403x10^13MPa )

should only be used when out right stated and not contradicted

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Not a Destruction Level , but overcoming the GBE of any reasonable size object where a GBE calculation would be relevant results in a MPa between Atomization and Subatomic Destruction

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redoing the table of all Materials to bring it in line with these definitions will take a lot of time and the table will be slowly updated as time goes on , we will try and put all the source at the bottom of the table (link to VSBW destruction tables)

Material	Shearing	Compressing	Fragmenting / tensile /cracking	Violent Fragmenting	Pulverizing	Melting	Sublimating	atomizing	Subatomic splitting
Generic Rock	8 MPa	69 MPa	9.9 MPa	198 MPa	990 MPa	6,174.5 MPa	25,700 MPa	30,852.2 MPa	5.403x10^13 MPa
Generic Wood	13.5 MPa	5.72 MPa	5.31 MPa	106.2 MPa	531 MPa	107.1 MPa	8911.3 MPa