An innovative and cost-effective approach is presented for development of explosive safety (quantity-distance) criteria for shallow tunnels. the approach proposes to formulate and validate the scaling laws for q-d incorporating properties of explosives, as well as the physical and mechanical… More

An innovative and cost-effective approach is proposed for site survey and detection of buried ordnance. The technique is based on development of a "ground penetrating radar" (GPR) and associated multitask software control package. This system can be used to generate, transmit into the ground, and… More

The primary objective of this SBIR effort is to develop and refine UXO detection, location, and discrimination technologies. The development of such technologies are achieved through systematic research, laboratory and bench scale tests, leading to performance validation based on large pilot scale… More

The primary objective of this SBIR effort is to develop and refine UXO detection, location, and discrimination technologies. The development of such technologies are achieved through systematic research, laboratory and bench scale tests, leading to performance validation based on large pilot scale… More

An innovative and cost-effective technique, based on physical scale-model testing at 1-g, is presented to evaluate the performance of the next generation penetrator missiles designed to take out underground structures. The sub-scale target, an engineeredsystem, can be considered as underground… More

"There is a growing interest by our adversaries to utilize underground facilities for production and storage of "weapons-of-mass destruction" (WMD) and military hardware. Mechanized or conventional excavation techniques are used for construction of thesefacilities depending on the local conditions… More