Materiel Testing in the Tropics.
Abstract
The US Army Tropic Test Center (USATTC) presents the 1975 update of Tropic Environmental Effects, retitled Materiel Testing in the Tropics. The handbook is a compendium of the US Army's experience in testing equipment in the humid tropics. Sources of information are tropic materiel tests, test methodology investigations, personal experiences, open literature, Department of Defense reports, and voluntary contributions from many scientists and engineers outside of USATTC. The document is the US Army's unofficial corporate memory of tropic materiel testing. Topics covered include the Panama Canal Zone environment, history of tropic tests, degrading environmental factors, materiel degradation, tropic reliability and maintainability, vehicular mobility testing, sound, visibility, and radio propagation, human factors engineering, working in the jungle, man-pack protability and computerized test site selection methods.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 01, 1975
- Accession Number
- ADA015426