Stake Driving Tools. A Preliminary Survey

Abstract

The military has frequently encountered difficulty in installing and removing anchors in the field where hard frozen ground exists. This difficulty has often precluded rapid deployment of military hardware requiring anchors for their stability or support. This report gives results of a study of four commercial breaker-rock drills, a prototype hydraulic stake driver-retriever and a prototype propellant-actuated hammer which were evaluated for the driving of anchors into hard frozen ground. The tests found that commercial breaker-rock drills can be used without modification to drive standard military GP-112/G and GP-113/G stakes into frozen ground. The study revealed that, while the hydraulic stake driver would require further development to increase its reliability, it could drive the above stakes into frozen ground. The propellant-actuated stake driver was found incapable of driving stakes into hard frozen ground and was not considered worthy of further development as a stake driver.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1977
Accession Number
ADA041053

Entities

People

  • Austin Kovacs
  • Ronald T. Atkins

Organizations

  • Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Anchors (Structural)
  • Combustion
  • Construction
  • Dynamic Response
  • Energy
  • Engineering
  • Engines
  • Frequency
  • Hammers
  • Internal Combustion Engines
  • Materials
  • Measurement
  • Mechanical Structure
  • Power Supplies
  • Resonant Frequency
  • Test And Evaluation

Readers

  • Logistics and Supply Chain Management.
  • Polar and Arctic Studies
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Satellites