Method No | Method No | Method Title|Description of Test |
500 | 500.6 | Low Pressure (Altitude) |
Procedure I | Storage/Air Transport |
Procedure II | Operation/Air Carriage |
Procedure III | Rapid Decompression |
Procedure IV | Explosive Decompression |
501 | 501.6 | High Temperature |
Procedure I | Storage | 24 hours non-operating soak at +71℃ followed by 2 hours at +55℃ with unit operational |
Procedure II | Operation | 24 hours non-operating soak at +71℃ followed by 2 hours at +55℃ with unit operational |
Procedure III | Tactical-Standby to Operational |
502 | 502.6 | Low Temperature |
Procedure I | Storage | 24 hours non-operating soak at -46℃ followed by 2 hours at -20℃ with unit operational |
Procedure II | Operation | 24 hours non-operating soak at -46℃ followed by 2 hours at -20℃ with unit operational |
Procedure III | Manipulation |
503 | 503.6 | Temperature Shock |
Procedure I-A | One-way Shock(s) from Constant Extreme Temperature |
Procedure I-B | Single Cycle Shock from Constant Extreme Temperature |
Procedure I-C | Multi-Cycle Shocks from Constant Extreme Temperature |
Procedure I-D | Shocks To or From Controlled Ambient Temperature |
504 | 504.2 | Contamination by Fluids |
Procedure I | Aircraft systems, full-up wheeled and track vehicles and water craft, etc |
Procedure II | Small arms systems, clothing, boots, gas masks, gloves, Less Than Lethal and other ammunition, binoculars, flashlights, small arms tripods, and other materiel |
505 | 505.6 | Solar Radiation (Sunshine) |
Procedure I | Cycling (heating and/or minimal actinic effects) |
Procedure II | Steady State (actinic effects) |
506 | 506.6 | Rain |
Procedure I | Rain and Blowing Rain |
Procedure II | Exaggerated |
Procedure III | Drip |
507 | 507.6 | Humidity |
Procedure I | Induced (Storage and Transit) and Natural Cycles |
Procedure II | Aggravated | Procedure II-Aggravated |
10 off 24 hour cycles between +30℃ |
508 | 508.7 | Fungus |
509 | 509.6 | Salt Fog |
510 | 510.6 | Sand and Dust |
Procedure I | Blowing Dust |
Procedure II | Blowing Sand |
511 | 511.6 | Explosive Atmosphere |
Procedure I | Explosive Atmosphere |
Procedure II | Explosion Containment |
512 | 512.6 | Immersion |
Procedure I | Immersion | Depth: 1 meter |
Duration: 30 minutes |
Units preconditioned to be +27℃ above the water temperature for 2 hours |
Procedure II | Fording |
513 | 513.7 | Acceleration |
Procedure I | Structural Test |
Procedure II | Operational Test |
Procedure III | Crash Hazard Acceleration Test |
514 | 514.7 | Vibration |
Procedure I | General Vibration | 20-1000Hz @ 0.04g2/Hz |
1000-2000Hz @ -6dB/Octave |
Overall Level: 7.7grms |
Duration: 1 hours in each of 3 axes |
Procedure II | Loose Cargo Transportation |
Procedure III | Large Assembly Transportation |
Procedure IV | Assembled Aircraft Store Captive Carriage and Free Flight |
515 | 515.7 | Acoustic Noise |
Procedure Ia | Diffuse Field – Uniform Intensity Acoustic Noise |
Procedure Ib | Diffuse Field – Direct Field Acoustic Noise |
Procedure II | Grazing Incidence Acoustic Noise |
Procedure III | Cavity Resonance Acoustic Noise |
516 | 516.7 | Shock |
Procedure I | Functional Shock | 20g, 11ms half sine shock pulse |
3 shocks in each direction of each of 3 axes |
Shocks increased in 5g steps up to 40g 11ms in each axis |
Procedure II | Transportation Shock |
Procedure III | Fragility |
Procedure IV | Transit Drop | 1.22 metres drop onto concrete |
Total of 26 drops (1 drop on each face,corner and edge) |
Procedure V | Crash Hazard Shock |
Procedure VI | Bench Handling |
Procedure VII | Pendulum Impact |
Procedure VIII | Catapult Launch/ Arrested Landing |
517 | 517.2 | Pyroshock |
Procedure I | Near-field with an Actual Configuration |
Procedure II | Near-field with a Simulated Configuration |
Procedure III | Mid-field with a Mechanical Test Device |
Procedure IV | Far-field with a Mechanical Test Device |
Procedure V | Far-field with an Electrodynamic Shaker |
518 | 518.2 | Acidic Atmosphere |
519 | 519.7 | Gunfire Shock |
Procedure I | Direct Reproduction of Measured Materiel Input/Response Time Trace Data Under Guidelines Provided in Method 525.1 for Time Waveform Replication |
Procedure II | Stochastically Generated Materiel Input/Response Based Upon Measured Time Trace Information |
Procedure III | Stochastically Predicted Materiel Shock Input for Preliminary Design Based Upon Predicted |
520 | 520.4 | Temperature, Humidity, Vibration, and Altitude |
Procedure I | Engineering Development |
Procedure II | Flight or Operation Support |
Procedure III | Combined Environments Test |
521 | 521.4 | Icing/Freezing Rain |
522 | 522.2 | Ballistic Shock |
Procedure I | Ballistic Hull and Turret (BH&T), Full Spectrum, Ballistic Shock Qualification |
Procedure II | Large Scale Ballistic Shock Simulator (LSBSS) |
Procedure III | Limited Spectrum, Light Weight Shock Machine (LWSM) |
Procedure IV | Limited Spectrum, Mechanical Shock Simulator |
Procedure V | Limited Spectrum, Medium Weight Shock Machine (MWSM) |
Procedure VI | Drop Table |
523 | 523.4 | Vibro-Acoustic/Temperature |
524 | 524.1 | Freeze-Thaw |
Procedure I | Diurnal Cycling Effects |
Procedure II | Fogging |
Procedure III | Rapid Temperature Change |
525 | 525.1 | Time Waveform Replication |
Procedure I | The SESA replication of a field measured materiel time trace input/response |
Procedure II | The SESA replication of an analytically specified materiel time trace input/response |
526 | 526.1 | Rail Impact |
527 | 527.1 | Multi-Exciter Testing |
Procedure I | Time Domain Reference Criteria |
Procedure II | Frequency Domain Reference Criteria |
528 | 528.1 | Mechanical Vibrations Of Shipboard Materiel (Type I – Environmental And Type II – Internally Excited) |
Procedure I | Type I – Environmental Vibration |
Procedure II | Type II – Internally Excited Vibration |