Bang-Bang from Hell!: Product for humanitarian land mine clearance

Bang-Bang from Hell!: Product for humanitarian land mine clearance

Tijs, R.J.A.

Van Boeijen, A.G.C. (mentor)
Langeveld, L.H. (mentor)

Industrial Design Engineering

Integrated Product Design

2010-06-09

Every day innocent civilians are injured or killed by land mines. Mine fields can be found in about 90 countries as a result of conflicts which ended a long time ago. Nobody knows exactly were the mines are and how many there are. The current process to detect land mines is slow, dangerous and expensive. It will take decades, if not centuries until all mines are found and destroyed. For the last 15 years development projects to improve the clearance process have had hardly any result. The projects often did not take the implementation of their technology into account. Problems which occurred were: Costs of the technology; Acceptance by the local population; Accessibility to the mine fields; Local accessibility to materials and knowledge for operation and maintenance and the reliability of the technology. The aim of this project is to improve the process of land mine clearance. It is important to release land quicker, so the local population can populate and use the land again. Cooperation with the local community is essential, because they are familiar with the problem and know what could be a good solution for them. The situation in every country is different, so this project will focus on the country with the biggest land mine problem: Cambodia. About 350 people die of land mine annually and the country counts over 45.000 maimed people as a result of land mines. This report will describe the project where desk research and research on the local context of the land mine issue in Cambodia have led to the development of a product which could offer a more efficient method of mine clearance. The result of this project is a prototype of a working principle that gives an answer to the actual desires of the local community

Mineclearance
Land mines

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:f56591b6-b168-4a04-b9bc-d050958f9099

2011-06-09

Campus only

Student theses

master thesis

(c) 2010 Tijs, R.J.A.