Chemical, Biological, and Radiological (CBR) Contamination Survivability: Large Item Interiors

Abstract

This Test Operations Procedure (TOP) provides basic information to facilitate planning, conducting, and reporting of large item interiors testing such as tactical vehicles, fixed and rotor wing tactical aircraft, vans, shelters, building interiors, shipboard interiors, and cargo aircraft interiors. This TOP provides standard methods for chemical, biological, and radiological contamination survivability (CBRCS) testing of interior surfaces of military materiel. It is designed to provide results to determine if large items of mission-essential (ME) equipment have met applicable CBRCS requirements. This TOP describes typical facilities, equipment, and procedures used to contaminate and decontaminate equipment, sample for contamination density, sample for residual contamination, determine degradation of ME functions resulting from the contamination/decontamination (C/D) procedures, and analyze crew/system under test (SUT) compatibility.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 22, 2012
Accession Number
ADA565444

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Counter WMD
  • Engineered Resilient Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Cargo Aircraft
  • Chemical Warfare
  • Chemical Warfare Agents
  • Chemical Weapons
  • Liquid Chromatography
  • Material Degradation Processes
  • Materials
  • Measurement
  • Performance Tests
  • Radioactive Contamination
  • Standards
  • Surface Properties
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Test Equipment
  • Test Facilities
  • Test Methods
  • Transport Aircraft

Readers

  • Aerospace Test and Evaluation
  • Critical Infrastructure Protection in CBRN and WMD Threats.