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K&C Gives Blast Effects Seminar to Canadian Engineers
Karagozian & Case recently gave a three-day blast effects seminar to engineers in Canada. The seminar focused on describing various techniques for performing blast effects studies, and designing structures to resist blast loads. The seminar also introduced some of the new materials that K&C uses for retrofitting existing structures for blast resistance, including polymers, high strength fabrics and crushable foams.
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Karagozian & Case Awarded Blast Resistant Curtain Wall R&D Program by Department of State
A team led by Karagozian & Case (K&C) was recently awarded a multi-year program to continue development of a blast, ballistic, and forced entry resistant curtain wall facade for the United States Department of State, Bureau of Diplomatic Security (DOS-DS). Under this new research and development (R&D) program, a façade initially intended for new construction will be adapted for use in retrofitting existing structures. K&C has worked closely with DOS-DS continuously for over a decade providing blast-resistant design, high-fidelity physics-based analysis, and test planning support for numerous programs related to enhancing the blast resistance of facilities. According to Ruben Martinez, a senior engineer with K&C, “The Department of State has for many years required their oversea’s buildings to perform to a much higher standard as compared to most other kinds of facilities. This is particularly true in regions where threats from numerous sources are high.”
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Blast Effects Design/Analysis Course to be Taught in Australia
Toward the end of 2009, John Crawford and Shengrui Lan of Karagozian & Case, among others, will be conducting a short two-day course on Blast Effects. The seminar will cover state of the art protective technologies and blast analysis and mitigation scenarios. The course brochure is available here for more details and registration information on the December 1-2, 2009 gathering at the University of Adelaide campus in Australia.
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"Sometimes you just have to blow stuff up..."
So says the New Mexico Business Weekly last week in an article describing the recently acquired Karagozian & Case $10 million contract to provide Architect - Engineer (A-E) services for the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA). (Full article available here in pdf form.)
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Karagozian & Case Awarded Defense Threat Reduction Agency Contract
Karagozian & Case announced today that its team, led by Merrick and Company, was awarded an indefinite delivery / indefinite quantity (ID/IQ) task order contract to provide Architect - Engineer (A-E) services for the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA).
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Javier Malvar Receives ACI Design Award
According to Concrete International Javier Malvar has been awarded a prestigious Association of Civil Engineers Design Award "for developing a methodology to improve the blast resistance of existing reinforced concrete columns" outlined in his article "Specific Local Resistance Concepts," Concrete International, Vol. 27, No. 12, December 2005, pp. 23-27.
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Engineering Position Available in K&C Burbank Office
Build models with FEMB, TrueGrid, LS-Ingrid/Prepost. Investigate buildings and structures with LS-DYNA; analyze high frequency wave propagations in elastic and elasto-plastic material theory; develop concrete constitutive models with knowledge of precedents in specialty, principle, and practice. MS in Civil Engineering.
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New Technical Papers Added to the K&C Online Resource Library
The addition of several new technical papers to K&C's growing online Resource Library will be welcomed by many of our clients and visitors who download them regularly. These papers are in great demand and present the results of years of research, design and testing.
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Successful Blast Test at Energetic Materials Research and Testing Center
The American Institute of Steel Construction contracted Karagozian & Case and the Energetic Materials Research and Testing Center (EMRTC) to plan, design, and execute a full-scale blast test of a steel wide-flange column.
