ENVIRONMENTAL CRITERIA AND SIMULATION METHODS RESEARCH STUDY
Abstract
The primary function of development and testing of Army materiel is to ensure that material scheduled for worldwide use satisfies minimum operational, technical, and safety requirements in all types of environments and troop operational employment. Accordingly, design and test criteria must provide factual bases for technical doctrine to support operational objectives and improved combat capability. The research program employs systems approach and operations analyses techniques applied to a viable environmental situation to develop environmental criteria and simulation methods. A model is developed that is devoid of arbitrary factors and is, thereby, realistic to natural environments of field and storage (standby) operations. Systems concepts are used to encompass the effects of multi-environmental complexes. Artificial and psuedo-environmental concepts are removed so that better correlation of laboratory testing with field performance is made possible. Fundamentally underlining this research approach is the concept that hardware failures are always symptomatic of disorder in a particular dynamic system. Emphasis is on the constructive method of research wherein it is considered that an event is always the result of an interaction of several coexisting factors, and that hazards are not haphazard but exhibit patterns that can be identified. The event is studied as a whole, then the operative factors are gradually sorted out by a series of increasingly precise approximations. Overall relationships are maintained intact, correctly placed in relationship with each other and held in contact, yet they are differentiated.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Dec 01, 1967
- Accession Number
- AD0666185
Entities
People
- David Askin
- Maurice H. Simpson