Outdoor Sand and Dust Testing

This TOP provides guidance for conducting sand and dust tests using an outdoor test facility. Outdoor facilities are required when a chamber test is not feasible due to test article size andor chamber size limitations. Two procedures are described. One approximates the sand test guidance outlined in Military Standard MIL-STD-810G. The second method is offered as an alternative and attempts to meet both sand and dust test requirements in one test i.e., sand and dust are mixed at concentrations approximating MIL-STD-810 test levels. This document describes some of the instrumentation, test equipment, and data collection and processing procedures.