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Development of Heavy Demining Machine

The heavy demining machine is intended for machine demining of larger mine-suspected areas in humanitarian mine clearing. What was considered for tools were two variants: a variant of working tool with two flails, as well as a variant with one flail and one tiller, having in mind the functions of these variants. Some time ago, it was unimaginable to combine flail and tiller, mostly because power demands for this were too high. Nonetheless, by allocating the power to working tools a realistic option was designed, which would allow feasible solutions even for smaller sized machines. In order to destroy AP and AT mines, the primary role is on flail of high diameter, and secondary on tiller with a two times lower diameter which ensures that digging depth is good enough, thus enabling high quality of mine clearance. A high reliability of mine destruction is thereby ensured, because with these two independent and different tools the density of hammer strikes is immediately adapting to the conditions of mine density. The independence of tool adaptation together with remote control is improving the speed of mine clearing. The required force of the hammer impulse has been determined in order to be able to overcome the resistance from digging the soil resistance. The results of machine testing show high graded performance regarding mine clearance quality.

development heavy demining machine; humanitarian mine-clearance machine; destruction of AP and AT mines

Rad je dobio prestižnu nagradu. Best Seession paper Award, New Product Development Session: Development of Heavy Demining Machine, presented to Dinko Mikulić.