Karagozian & Case, Inc.

Blast-resistant and force protection structural design for buildings, facilities, bridges, and critical infrastructure.

• Blast-Resistant Building Design

  Reinforced concrete and structural system design for resistance to explosive loads, including building envelopes and column retrofit.

• Force Protection for Critical Infrastructure

  Protective design for government facilities, embassies, transportation hubs, and mission-critical structures against conventional weapons and terrorist threats.

• Nuclear and Extreme Blast Hardening

  Evaluation and design of hardened structures against nuclear air blast effects, including super-hard silo design for strategic asset protection.

Quantified risk and vulnerability assessments for structural and mechanical systems exposed to man-made and natural threats.

• Man-Made Hazard Assessment

  Structural vulnerability analysis for conventional weapons, blast, and terrorist threat environments.

• Natural Hazard Assessment

  Assessment of structural and mechanical systems against seismic, wind, and other natural hazard environments.

• Fast-Running Vulnerability Models

  Development and application of innovative fast-running models for conventional weapons effects, deployed in government vulnerability assessment and planning tools.

High-fidelity computational physics modeling using proprietary analytical methods and state-of-the-art numerical solvers.

• High-Fidelity Physics-Based (HFPB) Modeling

  Simulation of secondary debris effects, blast propagation, and structural dynamic response using advanced computational methods.

• Finite Element and Meshfree Analysis

  Computational solid dynamics analysis for structural and mechanical systems under extreme loading conditions.

Full-scale experimental blast testing and applied R&D to advance protective design knowledge and validate analytical solutions.

• Full-Scale Blast Testing

  Design, instrumentation, and execution of full-scale blast tests on building structures, cladding systems, and structural components.

• Pre- and Post-Test Analysis

  Pre-test prediction calculations and post-test data analysis to validate analytical models and inform design decisions.

Design, development, and blast testing of protective products for building envelopes and naval applications.

• Blast-Resistant Window Systems

  Design and testing of transparent armor window systems, including life-cycle cost optimization and improved ballistic, optical, and chemical resistance performance.

• Blast-Resistant Cladding Systems

  Development of non-proprietary curtain wall systems for re-cladding existing building envelopes with blast-resistant performance.

Proprietary engineering software for blast analysis, structural column design, and computational solid dynamics.

• FEMFRE Meshfree CSD Solver

  Meshfree computational solid dynamics solver provided to US DoD agencies for evaluation and available for broader modeling and simulation community distribution.

• CBARD Column Blast Analysis Tool

  Column Blast Analysis Retrofit Design software for evaluating blast response of building columns and designing new or retrofitting existing reinforced concrete columns for enhanced blast resistance.