TY - GEN
T1 - Radiated radio-frequency hazards with electric detonators
T2 - 2016 International Conference on Military Communications and Information Systems, ICMCIS 2016
AU - Tsigros, C.
AU - Gilles, T.
AU - Piette, M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 IEEE.
PY - 2016/6/20
Y1 - 2016/6/20
N2 - The safety of personnel is of a major concern when using and manipulating hotwire electric detonators. A lot of publications exist regarding the influence of electric fields on electric detonators. Most of them give safety distances in function of the E.I.R.P. (Equivalent Isotropic Radiated Power) taking into account several hypotheses, like the maximum electric fieldstrength in the presence of which the detonator is safe, related to the MNFS (Maximum No-Fire Stimulus) and the dipole configuration of the electric detonator wiring. To our knowledge all the standards and guides, military and civil, published up to now take as the worst case for wiring the dipole configuration (with the exception of loop and other antennas without further details). The present paper establishes that the worst case is rather when the wiring is arranged as a V-antenna with an aperture angle between the detonator wires of about 20°. When the angle is close to about 20° the current in the hotwire is higher than in the dipole configuration and reduce the safety margin of demining personnel.
AB - The safety of personnel is of a major concern when using and manipulating hotwire electric detonators. A lot of publications exist regarding the influence of electric fields on electric detonators. Most of them give safety distances in function of the E.I.R.P. (Equivalent Isotropic Radiated Power) taking into account several hypotheses, like the maximum electric fieldstrength in the presence of which the detonator is safe, related to the MNFS (Maximum No-Fire Stimulus) and the dipole configuration of the electric detonator wiring. To our knowledge all the standards and guides, military and civil, published up to now take as the worst case for wiring the dipole configuration (with the exception of loop and other antennas without further details). The present paper establishes that the worst case is rather when the wiring is arranged as a V-antenna with an aperture angle between the detonator wires of about 20°. When the angle is close to about 20° the current in the hotwire is higher than in the dipole configuration and reduce the safety margin of demining personnel.
KW - Personnel safety
KW - RF hazards
KW - hotwire electric detonator
KW - radiated immunity testing
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84979742035&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ICMCIS.2016.7496567
DO - 10.1109/ICMCIS.2016.7496567
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84979742035
T3 - 2016 International Conference on Military Communications and Information Systems, ICMCIS 2016
BT - 2016 International Conference on Military Communications and Information Systems, ICMCIS 2016
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 23 May 2016 through 24 May 2016
ER -