USER-ORIENTED MICROWAVE COUPLING SIMULATION CODE UTILIZING CAD BASED EXPERT SYSTEM ONN IBM PC-AT COMPATIBLES

MICROWAVE COUPLING SIMUATION CODES (MCCS) ARE REQUIRED FOR MODELING SUSCEPTIBILITY OF MILITARY SYSTEMS TO HIGH POWER MICROWAVES (HPM). MCCS ASSIST IN DETECTION OF SYSTEM WEAKNESSES TO HPM AND IN EVALUATING PROPOSED HPM-HARDENING TECHNOLOGY. THE RAPIDLY INCREASING NEED TO ESTABLISH SYSTEM SUSCEPTIBILITIES TO HPM MANDATES DEVELOPMENT AND DISTRIBUTIONN OF MCC SOFTWARE WHICH MAY BE OPERATED BY SYSTEM-LEVEL ANALYSTS. GEMACS, AVERSATILE MCC, IS NOW AVAILABLE ON PC-AT COMPATIBLES. PC-GEMACS IS PRESENTLY AVAILABLE WITH A GRAPHICS-BASED, CAD/CAM-TYPE INPUT-OUTPUT PACKAGE CAPABLE OF READING A VARIETY OF DATA FORMATS AND CAD STRUCTURAL/ELECTRICAL FILES. HOWEVER, AS WITH OTHER MCCS,PROPER OPERATION AND INTERPRETATION OF OUTPUT DATA ARE PRESENTLY ACCESSIBLE ONLY TO THOSE HIGHLY EXPERIENCED IN MICROWAVE COUPLING AND NUMERICAL ANALYSIS. THIS INNOVATIVE RESEARCH WILL EXAMINE THE FEASIBILITY OF DEVELOPMENT, AND REQUIREMENTS FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF A KNOWLEDGE-BASED EXPERT SYSTEM ATTACHED TO PC-GEMACE. SEA IS HIGHLY EXPERIENCED IN USER-ORIENTED OPERATING SYSTEMS. SEA WILL BE ASSISTED BY DR. E. L. COFFEY, KEY DEVELOPER OF GEMACS. DEVELOPMENT AND DISTRIBUTION OF THIS SOFTWARE SHOUL ALLOW SYSTEMLEVEL ANALYSTS TO OPERATE PC-GEMACS CORRECTLY AND CONFIDENTLY, MEETING PRESENT AND FUTURE COMPUTATIONAL DEMANDS.