Blast Engineering and Explosion Mitigation

Contemporary design requirements associated with life safety and property protection often require consideration for blast effects resulting from either accidental or intentional explosions. Proper treatment of blast effects in structural systems requires extensive training and experience in non-linear response of structures to short duration dynamic loading. Southern Research has engineers with this training and experience and currently offers blast engineering and explosion mitigation services.

Services Include:

• Analysis and design of structures for blast effects
• Methods ranging from classical to nonlinear transient FEA
• Government applications including DoS, DoD, and GSA sites
• Industrial equipment subjected to accidental explosions
• Commercial curtain wall and window systems
• New construction and retrofit of existing systems
• Hardening of historical buildings
• Inventive solutions for unusual applications