Advanced Protective Shelter Design

From Military/Info Publishing

The "Lost and Found Department", of Historical Military Technology, in business for over 20 years now.

225 Pages, in a 8˝ x 11 inch format, with over a hundred illustrations.
ISBN: 1-886848-17-3 {Item No.17} Price 30.00
Edited by Bruce A.Hanesalo

This book is primarily a reprinting of the U.S.Army’s TM 5-311 Military Protective Construction (Nuclear Warfare and Chemical and Biological Operations) (May 1965). A very detailed manual it covers most aspects of fallout shelter design.

CONTENTS 
CHARTER 1. CONCEPTS OF SHELTERS 
I.   Introduction
II.  Shelter protection in the field
CHAPTER 2. EFFECTS OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS 
I.   Forms of energy in nuclear detonation
II.  Blast
III. Initial radiation
IV.  Thermal radiation
V.   Residual nuclear radiation and fallout
CHAPTER 3. EXPEDIENT SHELTERS, INCLUDING USE OF 
  EXISTING FACILITIES 
I.   Introduction
II.  Conventional buildings
III. Fortifications as shelters	
IV.  Mines, tunnels, and caves
CHAPTER 4. CRITERIA FOR THE DESIGN OF SHELTERS 
I.   Criteria for providing nuclear protection
II.  Criteria for providing CB protection
CHAPTER 5. ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING 
I.   Introduction
II.  Disaster condition air supply
III. Air conditioning
IV.  Duct systems
V.   Filter units
VI.  Power, water, food, and communications
VII. Sanitation
VIII.Storage	
CHAPTER 6. DESIGN OF STRUCTURES 
I.   Introduction
II.  Corrugated steel buried structures
III. Reinforced concrete buried structures
CHAPTER 7. EXAMPLE DESIGN 
I.   Introduction
II.  Sample situation
III. Planning
IV.  Solution	
APPENDIX I. REFERENCES
INDEX