Chemical and Biological Contamination Survivability (CBCS), Large Item Exteriors. Test Operations Procedure

Abstract

This TOP provides basic information to facilitate planning, conducting, and reporting and to standardize chemical and biological (CB) contamination survivability testing of external surfaces of military materiel such as combat vehicles, vans, shelters, and large items of packaged materiel. It is designed to provide results to determine if large items of mission essential (ME) equipment have met applicable CB contamination survivability requirements. This TOP describes typical facilities, equipment, and procedures used to contaminate equipment, sample for contamination density, decontaminate, sample for residual contamination, determine degradation of ME functions resulting from the contamination/decontamination procedures, and analyze crew/SUT compatibility.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 21, 2011
Accession Number
ADA543683

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Engineered Resilient Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Chemical Warfare
  • Chemical Warfare Agents
  • Chemical Weapons
  • Data Analysis
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Environmental Protection
  • Liquid Chromatography
  • Material Degradation Processes
  • Materials
  • Measurement
  • Performance Tests
  • Surface Properties
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Test Equipment
  • Test Facilities
  • Test Methods

Readers

  • Critical Infrastructure Protection in CBRN and WMD Threats.
  • Software Engineering