The determination of the constitutive parameters of a medium with application to a reinforced concrete pad

This report describes the experimental and analytical program performed to determine the constitutive parameters of the reinforced concrete pad in the test facility used during the Low Power On-the-Ground portion of the NASA Boeing 757 HIRF Tests. These tests were conducted during the period September 20 to October 21, 1994 in the LESLI facility at the Phillips Laboratory, Kirtland AFB, NM. The on-the-ground tests were designed to meet several objectives including support of a flight test series and the generation of data for the validation of codes and models that could be used to predict the electromagnetic environment in transport aircraft. To satisfy these objectives, tests were to be executed in a known environment and the data compared to modeling results. A critical feature of this testing was the ``known environment`` which implies knowledge of the parameters which are critical to an effective modeling activity and which could include, among many other things, definitions of the airplane and its physical and electrical configuration, the ground upon which it sits when stationary, the fields impinging on the aircraft, and the radiating or bounding structure in the simulator. The authors would want to specify the electromagnetic characteristics of the entire space that would likely enter into a mathematical modeling effort so that the model can be made as ``close`` to physical reality as desired prior to exercising computational algorithms which might introduce their own uncertainties. Since the authors are evaluating codes used for determination of the electromagnetic environment in aircraft and since the on-the-ground test involved an airplane parked on a pad in the simulator facility, they would require a definition of the constitutive parameters of the pad.