PREDICTION OF THERMAL PROTECTION OF UNIFORMS, AND THERMAL EFFECTS ON A STANDARD-REFERENCE MATERIAL

Abstract

The purpose of Project 8.2, Operation Plumbbob, was to determine the adequacy of the laboratory methods employed in the study of the effects of intense thermal radiation on materials. The primary objectives were to determine the adequacy of physical methods for studying thermal damage to materials and for evaluating, by means of a physical skin simulant, the protection afforded by clothing to personnel against intense thermal radiation. A secondary objective of the project was to compare the burns predicted from the temperatures of the skin simulant behind an irradiated fabric assembly and the burns obtained on animals under identical exposure configurations.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 02, 1960
Accession Number
AD0360876

Entities

People

  • A. Hirschman
  • J. Bracciaventi
  • Jennifer Carter
  • T. I. Monahan
  • W. L. Derksen

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter WMD
  • Human Systems
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Supplies
  • Blast
  • Cameras
  • Environment
  • Exposure Meters
  • Field Tests
  • Ground Zero
  • High Temperature
  • Instrumentation
  • Ionizing Radiation
  • Laboratory Procedures
  • Measurement
  • National Security
  • Nuclear Weapons
  • Standards
  • Thermal Radiation
  • Weapons

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Materials Science
  • Nuclear and Radiation Engineering.