Waterfront Facilities Inspection and Assessment

Waterfront Facilities Inspection and Assessment
Author: Waterfront Inspection Task Committee
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Harbors
ISBN: 9780784413579

MOP 130 provides engineers with guidelines and tools for inspecting and evaluating the condition of waterfront structures located in seawater and freshwater environments.

Residential Rehabilitation Inspection Guide

Residential Rehabilitation Inspection Guide
Author: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2014-05-19
Genre:
ISBN: 9781499604030

This guide provides step-by-step technical information for evaluating a residential building's site, exterior, interior, and structural, electrical, plumbing, and HVAC systems.

Human Factor Concepts for Testing Complex Man/machine Systems

Human Factor Concepts for Testing Complex Man/machine Systems
Author: Melvin S. Majesty
Publisher:
Total Pages: 18
Release: 1961
Genre: Human engineering
ISBN:

The purpose of PSS (Personnel subsystem) development is to provide the performance required of personnel in the system. The PSS developer must satisfy the system requirements for human performance and insure that the system is compatible with man's capabilities and limitations. The objective is to assure the availability of qualified military personnel concurrent with the availability of system hardware to the user. PSS processes and products support human performance for the system and must be evaluated in terms of their contribution to reliable and efficient human performance. Some of the areas of consideration are: the inter-relationship of functions performed by system people and system hardware, human engineering, personnel requirements, training and training equipment, life support, and test and evaluation. (Author).

Assessment of Supercritical Water Oxidation System Testing for the Blue Grass Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plant

Assessment of Supercritical Water Oxidation System Testing for the Blue Grass Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plant
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 119
Release: 2013-10-10
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0309287324

Assessment of Supercritical Water Oxidation System Testing for the Blue Grass Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plant reviews and evaluates the results of the tests conducted on one of the SCWO units to be provided to Blue Grass Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plant. The Army Element, Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives (ACWA) is responsible for managing the conduct of destruction operations for the remaining 10 percent of the nation's chemical agent stockpile, stored at the Blue Grass Army Depot (Kentucky) and the Pueblo Chemical Depot (Colorado). Facilities to destroy the agents and their associated munitions are currently being constructed at these sites. The Blue Grass Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plant (BGCAPP) will destroy chemical agent and some associated energetic materials by a process of chemical neutralization known as hydrolysis. The resulting chemical waste stream is known as hydrolysate. Among the first-of-a-kind equipment to be installed at BGCAPP are three supercritical water oxidation (SCWO) reactor systems. These particular hydrolysate feeds present unique non-agent-related challenges to subsequent processing via SCWO due to their caustic nature and issues of salt management.This report provides recommendations on SCWO systemization testing inclusive of durability testing and discusses systemization testing objectives and concepts.

Test and Evaluation of Biological Standoff Detection Systems

Test and Evaluation of Biological Standoff Detection Systems
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 42
Release: 2008-07-29
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0309134234

A biological warfare agent (BWA) is a microorganism, or a toxin derived from a living organism, that causes disease in humans, plants, or animals or that causes the deterioration of material. The effectiveness of a BWA is greatly reduced if the attack is detected in time for the target population to take appropriate defensive measures. Therefore, the ability to detect a BWA, in particular to detect it before the target population is exposed, will be a valuable asset to defense against biological attacks. The ideal detection system will have quick response and be able to detect a threat plume at a distance from the target population. The development of reliable biological standoff detection systems, therefore, is a key goal. However, testing biological standoff detection systems is difficult because open-air field tests with BWAs are not permitted under international conventions and because the wide variety of environments in which detectors might be used may affect their performance. This book explores the question of how to determine whether or not a biological standoff detection system fulfills its mission reliably if we cannot conduct open-air field tests with live BWAs.

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Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 764
Release: 1984
Genre: Aeronautics
ISBN: