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K&C works all over the world. We realize clients and projects sometimes are aided by our engineering staff's ability to communicate and work in multiple languages--those our engineers are fluent in are listed above. or those using other languages, we will be happy to proivde the necessary translation services.

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Weapons Effects Modeling/Analysis

Weapons Effects Modeling/Analysis

K&C has four decades of experience in characterizing weapons effects, assessing the response of military and civilian structures cause by such weapon effects, and designing hardened structures to provide protection from weapon effects. Blast-resistant designs that mitigate the effects of air dropped munitions differ from those that protect against the effects of either improvised explosive devices (IEDs) or terrorist bombs in that additional strengthening is required to resist the forces that are imparted to a structure by a weapon's casing. Casing fragments can both damage the material comprising the structural component directly and transfer large momentum forces to it. K&C's weapons effects models consider both of these damage modes.

K&C has developed simplified engineering models that compute weapons effects and structural responses and uses a variety of advanced physics-based analysis methods to simulate weapons effects and the resulting responses to them. An example of an attack is shown above. After a detonation within a room of the building, the damage imparted to one of the room’s walls was computed by one of K&C’s engineering models.