MIL-HDBK-814 Base Document:1994

1. SCOPE
   1.1 Background
   1.2 Overview
   1.3 Limitation
2. REFERENCED DOCUMENTS
   2.1 Government documents
3. DEFINITIONS, ACRONYMS AND SYMBOLS
   3.1 Definitions
   3.2 Acronyms and symbols
4. GENERAL HARDNESS ASSURANCE REQUIREMENTS
   4.1 Radiation environments and effects
5. DETAILED HARDNESS ASSURANCE REQUIREMENTS
   5.1 Radiation design hardening
   5.2 Hardness assurance, maintenance, and surveillance
   5.3 Radiation response measurements
   5.4 Design margins and hardness critical categories
   5.5 DMBP method
   5.6 PCC method
   5.7 Combined DMBP/PCC methods
   5.8 Hardness assurance testing
   6.0 References
APPENDIX
Statistical techniques for hardness assurance
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Describes the systems that must operate in radiation environment have to be designed to be survivable (hard) to radiation stress levels specified for them.

Systems that must operate in a radiation environment have to be designed to be survivable (hard) to radiation stress levels specified for them. In addition to design hardening, a Hardness Assurance (HA) program must also be developed during the system design phase for implementation of the production phase. The HA program consists of the production controls and tests which assure that each end product, i.e., delivered system, meets the hardened design specifications and requirements. This handbook is a revision and combination of the earlier MIL-HDBK-279 (see 6.1) and MIL-HDBK-280 (see 6.2) which in turn were the results of earlier work performed under the auspices of the Defense Nuclear Agency ((DNA see 6.3 and 6.4).