Materiel Testing in the Tropics.
Abstract
The US Army Tropic Test Center presents the 1976 update of 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 and is aimed directly at the scientists and engineers in the Army's development centers and test agencies. 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, radio propagation, human factors engineering, man-pack portability, and computerized test site selection methods. This document should provide valuable information for those who design, use, or test equipment for eventual deployment in the humid tropics of the world. It includes significant bibliographies of USATTC test and technical reports. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Feb 01, 1976
- Accession Number
- ADA027409