EMP Design and Test Guidelines for Systems in Mobile Shelters

Abstract

This document addresses the unique electromagnetic characteristics of metallic enclosures, commonly referred to as signal, communications, or box-body shelters, and identifies what system developers should do to optimize the electronic survivability of equipment placed in these shelters. Since nuclear induced high-altitude EMP is but one of possibly many nonionizing hostile environments that the shelter electronics must survive, this document treats EMP survivability in terms familiar to the design engineer. EMP Guidelines, Design test, Shelters.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1993
Accession Number
ADA275335

Entities

People

  • Stephen C. Sanders

Organizations

  • United States Army Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Electronic Warfare
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Electromagnetic Fields
  • Electromagnetic Pulses
  • Electromagnetic Radiation
  • Electromagnetic Shielding
  • Engineers
  • Failure Mode And Effect Analysis
  • Gamma Rays
  • Measurement
  • Military Research
  • Nuclear Radiation
  • Semiconductor Devices
  • Semiconductors
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Test Equipment
  • Test Methods
  • Thermal Radiation
  • Varistors

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Instructional Design and Training Evaluation.
  • Nuclear Civil Defense.
  • Optical Fiber Sensing and Electromagnetic Propagation.

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics
  • Microelectronics - Microelectromechanical Systems