Further Examining the Role of Cohesive Sediments in Munitions Mobility through Additional Infield Deployment of Smart Munitions and Application of a SERDP-developed Penetrometer

Abstract

While the mechanisms for munitions burial in non-cohesive sediments are well established, be it through scour-burial processes (see ONR mine burial studies) or granular sorting (Calantoni MR-2320), the resistive nature of cohesive sediment to granular erosion reduces the likelihood of granular sorting as a primary mechanism for burial, inhibits scour (Inman and Jenkins, 2002), and may result in other mechanisms for burial not characteristic of non-cohesive sediments (Baeye et al., 2012; Sheremet et al., 2005). This study expands the research on MEC mobility and burial in cohesive sediments by investigating the geotechnical properties of cohesive sediments that contribute to MEC mobility and burial as observed in detailed field experiments in MR-2730.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 30, 2021
Accession Number
AD1187741

Entities

People

  • Arthur C. Trembanis
  • Carter Duval

Organizations

  • University of Delaware

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Sensors
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acoustic Detection
  • Acoustic Tracking
  • Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
  • Bearing Capacity
  • Delaware Bay
  • Department Of Defense
  • Detectors
  • Engineering
  • Expert Systems
  • Far Field
  • Grain Size
  • Measurement
  • Mechanics
  • Modulus Of Elasticity
  • Munitions
  • Precision-Guided Munitions
  • Sonar
  • Standards
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Supervised Machine Learning
  • Unexploded Ammunition

Readers

  • Coastal Oceanography
  • Geotechnical Engineering.