Effectiveness validation of assessment methods of HEMP vulnerability to systems

Mao Congguang; Qin Feng; Sun Dongyang; Zhao Mo; Sun Beiyun

doi:10.11884/HPLPB202537.250226

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Mao Congguang, Qin Feng, Sun Dongyang, et al. Effectiveness validation of assessment methods of HEMP vulnerability to systems[J]. High Power Laser and Particle Beams. doi: 10.11884/HPLPB202537.250226

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Mao Congguang, Qin Feng, Sun Dongyang, et al. Effectiveness validation of assessment methods of HEMP vulnerability to systems[J]. High Power Laser and Particle Beams. doi: 10.11884/HPLPB202537.250226

Mao Congguang, Qin Feng, Sun Dongyang, et al. Effectiveness validation of assessment methods of HEMP vulnerability to systems[J]. High Power Laser and Particle Beams. doi: 10.11884/HPLPB202537.250226

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Effectiveness validation of assessment methods of HEMP vulnerability to systems

doi: 10.11884/HPLPB202537.250226

National Key Laboratory of Intense Pulse Radiation Simulation and Effect, Northwest Institute of Nuclear Technology Xi’an 710024, China

Received Date: 2025-07-19
Accepted Date: 2025-09-03
Rev Recd Date: 2025-09-03

Available Online: 2025-09-12

Abstract

Abstract

Background
As the most challenging issue in the field of the electromagnetic pulse effects, no uniform method of the system vulnerability assessment against the high-altitude electromagnetic pulse (HEMP) has been established. The system design, use and test organizations stand on the different perspectives and the different criteria, which lead to the severe discrepancy in the assessment results. On the other hand, the basic data come from several sources, such as the experiential, testing, computation or the subjective judgements, and there is great uncertainty in these data. So the creditability of the assessment conclusions is vital to be validated from the objective and subjective information. However, too high cost and too long term will prohibit the conduct of the whole system test or computation, such as the communication and power infrastructures. Thus the assessment validation is a hard subject.
Purpose
In this paper, the computer control system vulnerability for HEMP is taken as an illustration to validate the effectiveness of different assessment methods.
Methods
Here three approaches relatively from the fields of the system use, design and test, i.e. The risk analysis, electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) analysis and the Bayesian networks (BN) are adopted and independently evaluate the HEMP susceptibility of the item under test (IUT).
Results
Three evaluation results indicate that the assessment methods are effective in despite of different thoughts, emphasizes and knowledge fields.
Conclusions
The BN method can preferably respond to the inherent characteristic of HEMP effect assessments, such as the conductivity, uncertainty, synthesis and subjectiveness, so the BN method is potentially promising in the practices.
- high-altitude electromagnetic pulse,
- vulnerability assessment,
- creditability validation,
- Bayesian networks,
- risk analysis,
- electromagnetic compatibility analysis,
- FTA

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