EMP Simulator - Site Interaction.

Abstract

EMP simulators interact with test objects and subsequently do not provide a test excitation environment that equals that of the threat EMP. This study compares the excitation from a horizontal simulator (TEMPS) to that from a horizontal EMP (HEMP). This comparison is made on a geometric scale model of an idealized communications facility. TEMPS is shown to be able to excite the facility and its external penetrations at threat-like levels, but cannot duplicate threat excitations. By analyzing a site for its critical penetration-to-critical-circuit coupling paths, often a TEMPS position can be found that will excite the site to threat-like levels. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1978
Accession Number
ADA067280

Entities

People

  • A. L. Whitson
  • W. E. Scharfman

Organizations

  • SRI International

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Counter WMD
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Couplings
  • Department Of Defense
  • Detectors
  • Dipole Antennas
  • Electric Fields
  • Electromagnetic Fields
  • Frequency
  • Ground Based
  • Magnetic Fields
  • Scale Models
  • Simulators
  • Stations
  • Test Facilities
  • Towers
  • Waveforms
  • Weapons

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Aerospace Test and Evaluation
  • Geodesy
  • Optical Fiber Sensing and Electromagnetic Propagation.