Sensors, Data Acquisition, and Burn Algorithms for Evaluating Clothing Against Battlefield, Flame, and Thermal Threats

摘要

The report summarizes an effort to provide technical guidance to enable the Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center to make informed decisions and effectively put into practice a thermal-testing facility, which includes an instrumented thermal manikin. This information was obtained by assessing the design, performance, operation, and cost of sensors, data acquisition systems, and burn algorithms used to evaluate thermal protective clothing against battlefield flame and thermal threats. Best-available technical information on test equipment and practices is provided to make reliable, reproducible, expedient, affordable, and safe evaluations of protective clothing. COTS heat-flux sensors and data acquisition systems, as well as state-of-the-art, albeit mature, algorithms for predicting burn injuries are available from more than one source to satisfy the technical requirements.