Design, Development, and Demonstration of an Easy-Fix Method for Re-Deploying Damaged Tactical Shelters

摘要

Tactical shelters are susceptible to a variety of types of in-service damage. This can result from battle damage, handling/transport damage, and environmental damage, and can be of a structural or functional nature. Structural damage consists of damage of sufficient extent to walls, roof, floor, or frame that transportability of the shelter is jeopardized. Easy-Fix is a concept for providing the means to evacuate structurally damaged, non-operational shelters using helicopter external airlift capabilities. Several material systems were evaluated, namely steel, aluminum, metal matrix composite, and polymeric composite, and all provided acceptable individual member and total system weights for the shelter under consideration. (jes)