Accession Number:

AD0780428

Title:

Computation of the Residual Radiation Transmission Factor for the Marine Corps LVTP7

Descriptive Note:

Final rept.

Corporate Author:

NAVAL ORDNANCE LAB WHITE OAK MD

Personal Author(s):

• Cawley, Robert G.

Report Date:

1973-09-28

Pagination or Media Count:

52.0

Abstract:

The present work reports the results of an effort to compute the protection factor and the residual radiation transmission factor for the Marine Corps LVTP7 troop carrier in a field of radioactive fallout. The P7 is similar to another vehicle, the army M113 APC armored personnel carrier, for which experimental data are available, and the author has used those results in the method. Briefly, the author has developed an approximate analytical technique, which enables us to calculate the protection factor for an enclosure whose walls are composed of plane slabs having arbitrary orientations.

Descriptors:

• *AMPHIBIOUS VEHICLES
• *FALLOUT
• *RADIATION PROTECTION
• ATTENUATION
• COMPUTATIONS
• GAMMA RAYS

Subject Categories:

• Nuclear Radiation Shielding, Protection and Safety
• Radioactivity, Radioactive Wastes and Fission Products
• Combat Vehicles

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE