The U.S. military utilizes a wide variety of food packaging systems to deliver rations to soldiers throughout the world. Food products and packaging systems must be capable of withstanding large variations in humidity, temperature and extended storage, as well as distribution related shock and vibration. Currently, polymeric trays are being evaluated to ensure their military suitability under each of these rigorous conditions. In addition, it ...
This report summarizes the performance of several flame-resistant (FR) insulative battings and compares the data to the current needled Nomex batting (MIL-B-81813) which is currently being used in the air crewman and combat vehicle crewman cold weather clothing systems. The intent of the effort was to find a batting which would be more thermally efficient, preferably lighter in weight, provide better FR protection, compressional recovery, wet loft retention and water-repellent ...
Heat transfer and water vapor transport measurements performed at three laboratories using the 'sweating' guarded hot plate apparatus were standardized based on the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) International Standard 11092. Comparison testing was conducted on four standard military uniform materials. The adherence to ISO 11092 resulted in good agreement among the three laboratories between measured values of thermal resistance and water vapor resistance for the four materials. The agreement ...
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