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GLOSSARY
Abbreviations
Air-Conditioning
Air Entrainment Subsystem
U.S. Army Armament Munitions and Chemical Command
American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers
Chemical and Biological
Chemical, Biological, and Radiological
Chemical Research and Development Center
Electromagnetic Pulse
Heating, Ventilation, and Air-Conditioning
National Bureau of Standards
National Fire Protection Association
National Stock Number
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Prime Mission Materiel/Personnel
Radio Frequency Interference
Sheet Metal and Air-Conditioning Contractor's National Association
Explanation of Terms
Accomplishes a continuous or a periodic
Air Entrainment System:
transfer of air (gas) between the atmosphere
and the facility; abbreviated AES.
Prevents entry of airblast over-pressure into
Blast Valve:
hardened facilities.
Warm-up or cool-down required to bring the
Conversion:
underground space temperature from initial
to design levels.
Facility buried deeply enough in the earth so
Deeply-Buried Facility:
that the prime-mission materiel/personnel
will physically survive when weapons of the
anticipated threat are delivered with great
accuracy and detonated overhead.
Electromagnetic pulse, associated primarily
EMP:
with the high intensity radiation and
fields induced
by nuclear
conduction
explosions, can produce extremely high
currents in conducting elements, disrupting
or destroying electronic components.
Combined transattack and postattack time
Endurance:
frames in which the facility must fulfill its
function.
The structures and equipment required to
Facility:
house, support, and protect the prime-mission
materiel/personnel.
The iterative process of definition, synthesis,
Facilities Systems-
Engineering: design, analysis, test, and
evaluation used to translate the imposed
facility design requirements to an effective
facility design.
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