As part of the United States Marine Corps (USMC) Mitigation of Blast Injuries through Modeling and Simulation project, Protection Engineering Consultants investigated and compared a range of landmine modeling strategies in LS-DYNA. …
David Stevens, Ph.D., P.E. and Matt Barsotti published a new technical paper which advances the state-of-the-art in modeling shock-loaded soil and investigates the effects of test site conditions on the impulse that is applied to the vehicle.
This paper presents and discusses response of connections for precast concrete panels subject to blast loads in arena tests and shock tube tests. This analysis, and most of the tests, were sponsored…
Large blast events will fail building components, such as the façade and supporting structure. Facades present the largest loading surface, are relatively weak, and will fail first and most violently when subjected…
The results from recent blast tests on non-load bearing precast concrete wall panels and comparisons to observed dynamic response and damage against single-degree-of-freedom (SDOF) analysis results are presented and discussed in this…
The PEC technical presentation entitled AutoMesher for LS-DYNA Vehicle Modelling was presented by Matt Barsotti at the LS-DYNA Users Conference in Dearborn, Michigan. Software has been developed to automatically mesh CAD files…
PEC engineer Kirk Marchand with colleagues from United States Steel Corporation has a feature article in the June issue of Iron and Steel Technology, the American Iron and Steel Institute monthly journal.…
Protection Engineering Consultants (PEC) was engaged by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to provide evaluation of the performance of window systems incorporating Herculite® XP glass and develop a fast running model…
Protection Engineering Consultants (PEC) and the University of Texas at Austin (UTA) have been collaborating to develop an anti-terrorism planning tool (ATP) as part of a broad effort by the Department of…
The current practice in blast resistant design of building structures for conventional blast loads is, in general, to design the building envelope (infill and curtain walls) to resist the design blast load…