Principles of Protection: U.S. Handbook of NBC Weapon Fundamentals and Shelter Engineering Design Standards - Hardcover

McCarthy, Walton W.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1612541143 ISBN 13: 9781612541143

Verlag: BROWN BOOKS PUB GROUP, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

Principles of Protection sets forth the definitive design standards for underground shelter engineering. This is the book the U.S. government should have written for the protection of its citizens. Walton McCarthy's research started in 1978 when he was privately funded for the educational research that formed the basis of his first book, The Nuclear Shelterist. He thereafter wrote Principles of Protection: The U.S. Handbook of NBC Weapon Fundamentals and Shelter Engineering Design Standards, known in the industry as POP. This book is now in its sixth edition for 2013. McCarthy has designed and built over 1,400 shelters using steel, concrete, wood, fiberglass, and plastic composites.

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Walton McCarthy is the president and principle engineer of Radius Engineering International Inc.® He is a mechanical engineer with a BS from Montana State University and a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the American Society of Testing and Materials, and the Composite Fabricators Association. He is also a licensed pilot and HAM radio operator. Some of his contributions to the fields of engineering and civil defense include the following: a new rating system for underground shelters to determine radiation doses inside a shelter known as the Total REMs in Shelter system or TRS, the Overpressure Choking Theory used to negate the effect of blast valves, fiberglass structures composed of multiple compound curves designed to resist multiple external pressures, and developing various underground shelter emergency escape methods. McCarthy has also worked with many government specialists in developing practical data for residential, corporate, and military applications.

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Principles of Protection, now in its sixth edition, has become the bible for underground shelter engineering design standards over the past twenty years. The book covers protection from nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons as well as natural disasters. McCarthy presents a wealth of standards and information, discussing the following and much more: nuclear weapon effects tables, air filtration standards, electromagnetic pulse (EMP) shielding standards, internal pressure control methods, radiation shielding tables for earth over the shelter, radiation doses entering through the shelter entranceway, sealed shelter atmosphere methods, hatch design, sanitation and septic systems, electrical systems, water filtration methods, and farming with EMP-safe tractors.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: BROWN BOOKS PUB GROUP
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1612541143
• ISBN 13: 9781612541143
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 727
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