RESEARCH AND EXPERIMENTATION ON UNIQUE EXPANDABLE SHELTER CONCEPTS FOR LIMITED WAR APPLICATIONS. VOLUME II. EXPERIMENTAL FABRICATION, IMPROVEMENT, AND TESTING OF THE 16' X 32' SHELTER.

Abstract

This report covers experimental fabrication, improvement, and testing of a series of 16' wide expandable lightweight shelters. Sixteen shelters were fabricated under the contract. The design, fabrication, and early testing of shelters No. 1 and No. 2 were covered in detail in Volume 1 of this final report. In order of their manufacture, design modifications production, and test programs of the successive shelters are discussed. These tests include tropical environment tests, Arctic environment tests, desert environment tests, cold weather environment tests, and operational suitability and climatic laboratory tests. Supplementing the main body of the report in a group of appendices consisting of the actual reports received from three of the test areas. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1968
Accession Number
AD0675184

Entities

People

  • James M. Alexander
  • Karl H. Merkel
  • Lawrence L. Fabbro

Organizations

  • University of Cincinnati

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Contracts
  • Environment
  • Fabrication
  • Laboratory Procedures
  • Laboratory Tests
  • Lightweight
  • Production

Readers

  • Materials Science
  • Nuclear Civil Defense.
  • Software Engineering