title: Studying the mechanical behavior of a plastic, shock-resisting, antitank landmine.
abstract: Modal behavior in landmines has recently become a topic of interest for acoustic landmine detection. It is well known that landmines exhibit mechanical resonance behavior that enhances the soil velocity over a buried landmine. Recent experimental work by Zagrai et al. [A. Zagrai, D. Donskoy, and A. Ekimov, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 118 (6), 3619-3628 (2005)] demonstrates the existence of structural modes in several landmines. The work reported herein parallels the work of Zagrai et al. in studying the structural modes of the pressure plate of a plastic, cylindrically symmetric, antitank landmine. The pressure plate is considered to act as an elastically supported thin elastic plate. An observed perturbation of the first symmetric mode of the pressure plate is caused by the landmine's shock-resisting mechanism. This is validated by a lumped element model for the first symmetric mode coupled to the shock-resisting mechanism.
authors.affiliation: National Center for Physical Acoustics, University of Mississippi, University, Mississippi 38677, USA. kirk.alberts@arl.army.mil
authors.forename: W C
authors.initials: WC
authors.lastname: Kirkpatrick Alberts
authors.forename: Roger
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Waxier
authors.forename: James M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Sabatier
mesh_terms: D000162:Acoustics; D004548:Elasticity; D006801:Humans; D019563:Mechanics; D015233:Models, Statistical