空军人员、储备物资和设备在其附近有常规武器爆炸的情况下,必须能够保存下来。为了保证这一点,工程与设施实验室同田纳西大学合作,研究使用非标准的几何形状来提高掩蔽所对常规武器作用的幸存能力和经济效益。现在的防护掩蔽所通常都是采用标准的几何形状、平墙和圆拱的现浇砼结构。这种现场劳动强度很大而又价值昂贵的结构,需要又厚又重的钢筋砼墙,以便在附近有常规武器爆炸时能够幸存下来。 Air force personnel, stockpiles, and equipment must be preserved in the event of a conventional weapon explosion near them. To ensure this, the Engineering and Facilities Laboratory collaborated with the University of Tennessee to study the use of non-standard geometries to increase the survivability and economic benefits of masking on conventional weapons. Current protective shelters are usually cast in place with standard geometries, flat walls, and arches. This structure, which is laborious and expensive on the spot, requires thick and heavy reinforced concrete walls to survive the explosion of conventional weapons nearby.