Proceedings of the 2nd Symposium on Vulnerability ad Survivability Volume II

Volume II ONLY. iii, [1], 80 pages. Figures. Tables. Formulae. References. Cover has some wear, staple holes, and ink stamp and marks. The compilers were with The Shock and Vibration Information Center of the Naval Research Laboratory. This symposium was sponsored by The Ballistics & Vulnerability Division of the American Defense Preparedness Association. The contents covered four sessions: Methodology, Sea Targets, Air Targets, and Land Targets. Henry C. Pusey was a physicist with the Department of Defense Naval Research Lab, retiring after 31 years of service. The three compilers later collaborated to produce An international survey of shock and vibration technology in 1979. Survivability is supported by applied science and technology for remaining mission capable after a military engagement to avoid or survive a hostile threat (survivability of platforms and ability against specific threats). This subcategory comprises four elements: susceptibility, vulnerability, recoverability, and lethality. In engineering, survivability is the quantified ability of a system, subsystem, equipment, process, or procedure to continue to function during and after a natural or man-made disturbance; for example a nuclear electromagnetic pulse from the detonation of a nuclear weapon. For a given application, survivability must be qualified by specifying the range of conditions over which the entity will survive, the minimum acceptable level or post-disturbance functionality, and the maximum acceptable downtime. In the military environment, survivability is defined as the ability to remain mission capable after a single engagement. An additional issue is detectability. It is highly desirable for the system to have limited detectabililty by adversaries. …