Feasibility Study on the Development of a Deployable Tactical EMP Tent for a Sustainable Military Facility

Kukjoo Kim, Kyung-Ryeung Min and Young-Jun Park
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Kukjoo Kim: Department of Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences, Korea Military Academy, Seoul 01805, Korea
Kyung-Ryeung Min: ICT Polytech Institute of Korea, Gyeonggi 12777, Korea
Young-Jun Park: Department of Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences, Korea Military Academy, Seoul 01805, Korea

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 13, issue 1, 1-12

Abstract: The Korean peninsula is under increasing threat of electromagnetic pulses (EMPs) from neighboring countries; EMP protection facilities are an essential means of ensuring the operational readiness of the military. However, existing EMP protection facilities are manufactured as fixed-weight structures, which limit the mobility of military operations and lead to the misconception of EMP protection as something only required for higher command. The current military and official EMP protection standards require only a uniform shielding effectiveness of 80 dB. Therefore, this study aims to differentiate the existing uniform level of shielding effectiveness of 80 dB into 80 dB, 60 dB, 40 dB, etc. Further, it seeks to derive the factors to be considered when applying various methods, such as shielding rooms, shielding racks, site redundancy, spare equipment, and portable lightweight protective tents, for recovery of failure, instead of the existing protection facilities that rely on shielded rooms by the Delphi analysis. Then, the applicability of lightweight EMP protection is determined after selecting lightweight materials to build a facility. The electromagnetic shielding performance of 21 types of materials was measured in the 30 MHz–1.5 GHz frequency band using ASTM-D-4935-10. The results showed the possibility of developing a lightweight EMP shielding facility, which would save approximately 316,386 tons of concrete, reducing the CO 2 emissions by approximately 9,972,489 tons. Assuming that the Korean carbon transaction price is USD 50/ton CO 2 , the savings are equivalent to USD 49,862,435.

Keywords: electromagnetic pulse (EMP); shielding effectiveness (SE); EMP tent; METT+TC; sustainable military design; CO 2 emission; required EMP protection level (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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