Nuclear electromagnetic pulse (EMP) vulnerability/lethality (V/L) taxonomy with focus on component assessment. Final report, October 1993-May 1994

Technical Report · Tue Nov 01 04:00:00 EST 1994

OSTI ID:91722

Ruth, B G

An assessment of how military systems behave when exposed to a nuclear electromagnetic pulse (EMP) is among the suite of survivability/vulnerability/lethality assessment normally performed on systems that must operate in a battlefield environment. In the past, a large effort was devoted to the assessment of system-specific components in an EMP environment; this work needs to be unified in a generic methodology that can be applied to all military systems. The proposed methodology is based on the application to the EMP assessment problems of the vulnerability/lethality (V/L) taxonomy (developed by the Army Research Laboratory ARL), which provides a mathematical framework for V/L analyses. In this report, the nuclear EMP V/L taxonomy is presented, with particular focus on the assessment of system components exposed to an EMP-induced transient signal.

• Research Organization: Army Research Lab., Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD (United States)
• OSTI ID: 91722
• Report Number(s): AD-A--289165/3/XAB; ARL-TR--205
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

42 ENGINEERING
ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSES
INTEGRATED CIRCUITS
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
MILITARY EQUIPMENT
NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS
PROGRESS REPORT
RISK ASSESSMENT
TRANSIENTS
VULNERABILITY