Poulter Laboratory Programs


Research programs in Poulter Laboratory cover a wide variety of subjects including dynamic response of materials and structures to impacts, explosions, fatigue, corrosion, and fire. Broad areas of expertise include structural dynamics, stress wave propagation, explosives and explosions, penetration mechanics, fracture and fragmentation, and computational mechanics. Research programs include experimental, analytical, and computational investigation.

To illustrate the type of research performed in Poulter Laboratory, some example programs are described in greater detail below.

O Crashworthiness
O Finite Element Simulations
O Fire Research
O Fracture and Fatigue
O Aircraft Safety
O Hardened Luggage Container
O Shock Physics
O Composite Materials


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Last Modified: 24 December 1998