PIEZOTEST DEVICE – SUITABLE TOOL FOR PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT CHEMICAL RESISTANCE TESTING IN BOTH STATIONARY AND MOBILE LABORATORIES CONDITIONS

Abstract

Permanent bigger threats of TICs employment as a potential terrorists´
aims tool, their leakage in consequences of an industry incident or a need of
liquidation of illegal dumping places of chemical waste call for skilled knowledge
of body surface protective suits protective properties. They are mostly expressed
with a value of breakthrough time (BT). A device BT is measured in accordance
with valid both civilian and military norms usually in a process of their establishment
into the CAF armament. In these norms chemical compounds on which protective
suits have to be tested are set. A number of ordered substances are only a fraction
of TICs which CAF Chemical Corps specialists can meet in operations with. BT
measurement is both technically and timely very difficult by the rule. That is why it
is performed in stationary laboratories. Measurement of material resistance in
either stationary or field conditions would enable a measurement set which use
a QCM detector with a polymer layer as a sensitive unit. This devise is not difficult
for service and accessories of mobile laboratories. It is able to provide essential
information concerning protection device constructive properties within an
interested amount of either TICs or mixtures of unknown compounds.