Electromagnetic pulse-induced-current measurement device. Final technical report, Jun 89-Sep 90

Technical Report · Thu Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 1991

OSTI ID:5897734

Gandhi, O P; Chen, J Y

To develop safety guidelines for exposure to high fields associated with an electromagnetic pulse (EMP), it is necessary to devise techniques that would measure the peak current induced in the human body. The main focus of this project was to design, fabricate, and test a portable, self-contained stand-on device that would measure and hold the peak current and the integrated change Q. The design specifications of the EMP-Induced Current Measurement Device are as follows: rise time of the current pulse, 5 ns; peak current, 20-600A; charge Q, 0-20 micro coulomb. The device uses a stand-on parallel-plate bilayer sensor and fast high-frequency circuit that are well-shielded against spurious responses to high incident fields. Since the polarity of the incident peak electric field of the EMP may be either positive or negative, the induced peak current can also be positive or negative. Therefore, the device is designed to respond to either of these polarities and measure and hold both the peak current and the integrated charge which are simultaneously displayed on two separate 3-1/2 digit displays. The prototype device has been preliminarily tested with the EMPs generated at the Air Force Weapons Laboratory (ALECS facility) at Kirtland AFB, New Mexico.

• Research Organization: Southeastern Center for Electrical Engineering Education, Inc., St. Cloud, FL (United States)
• OSTI ID: 5897734
• Report Number(s): AD-A-241946/3/XAB; CNN: F33615-87-D-0609
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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