Projects for government agencies, commercial enterprises and the design community
Our experience includes work for federal government agencies, architectural and construction firms, and a variety of industrial and commercial clients. Representative projects include:
Blast-resistant structural design and analysis
- Analysis of damage to blast-loaded buildings and components
- Design of blast-resistant buildings; upgrades for existing buildings
- Development of simplified computer design tools and spreadsheets for blast-resistant design
Weapons effects
- Explosive field-testing of sub- and full-scale structural elements and systems
- Explosive and fragment testing of windows, walls and expedient protection systems
- Numerical modeling of blast propagation over/around blast walls and obstacles
- Development of algorithms and prediction tools for close-in explosive loading (explosive breaching)
- Testing and numerical analysis of overpressure, fragment velocity and liquid release created by accidental detonation of a munition containing chemical agents
Built environment protection
- Development of criteria and standards documents for the Department of Defense on progressive collapse mitigation and blast-resistant building glass
- Terrorist vulnerability assessments at facilities owned and operated by the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Labor, the United States Treasury, the Federal Reserve System , the Department of Energy National Laboratories, the Supreme Court of the United States and other government, DoD and private facilities
- Blast-hardening designs for General Services Administration (GSA) federal courthouses and Federal Reserve banks, international airports, entertainment venues, major medical institutions, municipal emergency operations centers, petrochemical operations and office facilities, and other federal government, DoD and private facilities
- Blast-resistant detail development for highway bridges
- Development, analysis and crash testing of countermobility barriers
Systems protection
- Design and analysis of underbody, anti-mine vehicle armor
- High-fidelity numerical analysis of nuclear weapons storage vessels subjected to terrorist attack scenarios
- Testing and analysis of armored passenger vehicles
- Numerical modeling of nuclear waste shipping casks subjected to various accidental and deliberate extreme events
Personnel protection
- Development of instantaneous personnel ballistic protection devices
- Development of transparent and portable ballistic shields for VIPs
- Human injury research on blast effects (cadaver research)
- Testing and analysis of blast-loaded windows to support human injury model development for field applications
- Testing and modeling of barriers to mitigate blast and fragments from munitions accidentally detonated during field demilitarization
Explosive safety and hazards analysis
- Application of explosive safety manuals including DoD 6055.9, DoD 4154.26 and AF 91-201
- Analysis of blast pressure, fragment throw, and debris throw from explosions inside explosive storage and manufacturing buildings
- Analysis and design of dividing walls to prevent sympathetic detonation of explosives
- Design of hardened structures to provide personnel protection