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Detection of buried land mines using scattering of Rayleigh waves
conference contribution
posted on 2016-10-13, 09:58 authored by Victor V. KrylovThe issue of humanitarian demining becomes increasingly important in the modern world. In the light of this, one of the most urgent problems to be solved is the development of new more effective and safer methods of land mine detection. The idea, which forms the essence of this paper, is based on using scattering of Rayleigh surface waves on buried land mines for their remote detection (at distances of 5-10 m). Rayleigh waves at frequencies 0.1 - 1 kHz seem to be a natural physical tool for this purpose. Unlike electromagnetic waves, they are equally sensitive to both metallic and non-metallic objects. Moreover, they are localised near the surface and can be effectively scattered (reflected) by any objects on the ground surface or slightly below it. In this paper, some preliminary results of theoretical calculations of the scattering of Rayleigh waves by simple models of land mines are reported. The obtained results show that scattering of Rayleigh waves can be a viable method of land mine detection.
History
School
- Aeronautical, Automotive, Chemical and Materials Engineering
Department
- Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering
Published in
27th International Conference on Noise and Vibration Engineering, 'ISMA 2016' Proceedings of the ISMA 2016Pages
1919 - 1926Citation
KRYLOV, V.V., 2016. Detection of Buried Land Mines Using Scattering of Rayleigh Waves. Presented at the 27th International Conference on Noise and Vibration Engineering, (ISMA 2016), Leuven, Belgium, 19th-21st Sept., pp. 1919-1926.Publisher
KU LeuvenVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
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2016-08-20Publication date
2016Notes
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Language
- en