A Software for Estimating Cosmic Radiation Exposure of Aircraft Crew

Abstract:

To estimate Radiation doses received onboard aircraft to protect aircrew in accordance with the basic standard on ionization radiation protection and radiation source safety of China, we has developed a software called CARD used to calculate the effective radiation doses. A three dimension matrix is kernel part of the CARD, in the matrix preserves information about effective dose rates of cosmic radiation for retrieval is constructed. The data of matrix are based on results of simulation and measurements. The comparisons between the calculated effective dose using this tool and using CARI-6 respectively for various flights are carried out. The present analysis shows that for the cosmic radiation, this software is sufficient to ensure a precision on the dose estimate of flight.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 684)
• Pages: 234-237
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.684.234
• Online since: April 2013
• Authors: Qian Li, Shi Feng Zhang, Ying Jin Feng, Wei Ru Chen
• Keywords: Aircrew, Cosmic Radiation, Flight Environment, Software

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