Defense R&D and Engineering
Our talented team of engineers, physicists and computer scientists has decades of experience in research, development and testing for government agencies and private industry.
Lead Contacts
We are experts in nonlinear dynamic structural analysis, three-dimensional computational fluid dynamics (CFD), fire and thermal effects, structural acoustics, sonar, development of advanced analysis techniques and assessment of structures under blast loads. Much of our R&D work involves writing and maintaining computational software and development of fast-running tools for modeling blast, shock and impact loadings. Our clients – including the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, the U.S. Air Force and the Department of Homeland Security, among others – can use these tools to analyze military and civilian structures subjected to terrorist and conventional weapons loadings both in air and underwater.
Our unique experience also includes:
- UNDEX (underwater explosion) survivability, lethality and engineering support
- Airblast survivability, lethality and engineering support
- Shock testing: airgun, pond and deep-sea
- Ship impact, collisions and grounding
- Fleet sustainment applications and repair
- Uncertainty quantification and reliability
Our Team
Related Projects
Featured Project
Pump Shock Qualification When the U.K. Royal Navy sources a range of pump sets for new or upgraded vessels, it needs to know: Are they battle ready? Shock testing is the last and most rigorous of a series of procedures to answer that question.
Featured Project
Seismic Hazard Mitigation Research New technologies to protect buildings and critical infrastructure from seismic hazard may come from a surprising place: advances in metamaterial science, proven in the defense sector.
Featured Project
Australian Defence Capabilities With 70-plus years supporting clients in the defence sector, we brought our advanced analysis capabilities to the Australian market.
