Frozen Soil Characteristics That Affect Land Mine Functioning.

Abstract

This report discusses the results of an experiment to determine the effect of five factors on the load transferred through frozen soil to a buried land mine. The five variables examined were load, temperature, number of freeze-thaw cycles, soil, and water content. Analysis of a half-fraction factorial experiment shows that no one variable can be used as a predictor of mine functioning performance.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1983
Accession Number
ADA144308

Entities

People

  • P. W. Richmond

Organizations

  • Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory

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  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Anti-Tank Mines
  • Cells
  • Cold Regions
  • Combinatorial Analysis
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Equations
  • Experimental Design
  • Instrumentation
  • Land Mines
  • Load Cells
  • Measurement
  • Pressure Distribution
  • Regions
  • Tensile Strength
  • Tracked Vehicles
  • Vehicles

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