Unexploded Ordnance Detection and Mitigation

• Other Authors: Byrnes, James
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Springer 2017
• Subjects: Earth and Environmental Science ; Explosives > Detection > Technological innovations ; Explosive ordnance disposal ; Unexploded ordnance; 623.45
• Online Access: http://repository.vnu.edu.vn/handle/VNU_123/30717
• Institution: Vietnam National University, Hanoi

The chapters in this volume were presented at the July–August 2008 NATO Advanced Study Institute on Unexploded Ordnance Detection and Mitigation. The conference was held at the beautiful Il Ciocco resort near Lucca, in the glorious Tuscany region of northern Italy. For the ninth time we gathered at this idyllic spot to explore and extend the reciprocity between mathematics and engineering. The dynamic interaction between world-renowned scientists from the usually disparate communities of pure mathematicians and applied scientists which occurred at our eight previous ASI’s continued at this meeting. The detection and neutralization of unexploded ordnance (UXO) has been of major concern for very many decades; at least since the First World war (...)