Hardened Structure Design

Designing structures to resist explosive shock and impact threats is a special branch of structural engineering long practiced by K&C. Hardened structures may be constructed for a variety of applications, besides providing protection for military forces and systems.

Hardened Facilities

Facilities for the military and civilian operations where a hardened design is used, such as in launch control facilities, guardhouses, bomb shelters, inspection facilities, and military structures are an important part of our business. We are experienced in designing facilities either to contain explosions or protect occupants and on-going operations from external or internal blast and shock loading. In addition, K&C has extensive experience in testing hardened structural and mechanical systems to evaluate the effects engendered by both conventional and nuclear weapon effects, as well as effects generated from accidental HE and VCE explosions.

These include:

• Instrumentation bunkers and control rooms for nearby testing of explosives or potentially explosive materials
• Facilities that store explosives, dangerous chemicals, and hydrocarbons

These structures can vary from simple wooden sheds covered with dirt to multi-million dollar complexes for the storage and maintenance of military munitions. K&C has experience designing all these types of facilities including both aboveground and belowground facilities. With our decades of experience, K&C offers a preeminent capability for the design of hardened structures.

Services Offered

• Design of hardened facilities
• Design of military installations
• Design of containment facilities
• Design US military facilities to survive weapons effects including direct hits for both conventional and nuclear weapons, chem/bio attacks, small arms fire, and cannon rounds
• Design launch control and test bunkers for protecting personnel and equipment in nearby hazardous operations like testing explosives and launching missiles
• Design containment structures for testing of explosives, which can remain operational for repeated testing and can contain the effects wholly within themselves or vent the detonation products in a controlled manner
• Design of explosive hanlding and storage facilities