Using Simulation to Protect The Built Environment

Impact, Shock & Crash Community
Online Event

Tuesday 28th June 2022

08:00 PDT (Los Angeles), 11:00 EDT (New York)
16:00 BST (London), 17:00 CEST (Berlin)

Agenda

Welcome & Overview	Trudy Hoye, NAFEMS Technical Working Groups Manager
Introduction to the Impact, Shock & Crash Working Group	Gino Duffett, Impact, Shock & Crash Working Group Chair
Presentation	Paul Turner, DJ Goode & Associates
Question & Answer Session	Attendees

Event Description

A discussion of a few ways in which simulation is used to develop cost-effective solutions for protecting people and infrastructure within the built environment. Topics include counter-terrorism design advice to resist the effects of improvised explosive devices and from the use of vehicles as weapons.

About this event

This event is being hosted by the NAFEMS Impact, Shock and Crash Working Group. For more information and to get involved go to the Impact, Shock and Crash Working Group webpage.

The ISCWG has formed an online Community to enable NAFEMS members to learn more and interact with other engineers and scientists who have an interest in Impact, Shock and Crash analysis. For more information and to get involved go to the ISC Community webpage.

This is a free online event. Join the NAFEMS Impact, Shock & Crash Community to be notified about future events.

Presenter

Paul Turner, DJ Goode & Associates

Paul has a masters degree in Civil Engineering and a PhD from the University of Nottingham focusing on composite materials under quasi-static and impact loading. He has been employed by D J Goode & Associates as a Chartered Engineer specialising in the protection of structures against the effects of blast and other dynamic load cases.