Robustness comparison of Bow - tie and Dipole antennas

Present paper describes application of a computer intensive methodology to evaluate antenna susceptibility to random physical damage for a Dipole and a Bow-tie antenna. For each randomly generated damage pattern antenna parameters are simulated and statistical comparison is performed. Computer intensive statistical methods like the Bootstrap used for the post processing make fewer initial assumptions than classical statistical methods when modeling a problem, and are robust against small deflections from these assumptions. The Bias-Corrected and accelerated (BCa) Bootstrap method is used for confidence interval estimates. The Dipole antenna is found to be more robust to numbers of small (~100 of a wavelength) circular holes penetrating the structure than the Bow-tie.