Explosives-free laboratory blast
simulation

Testing structures for blast-resistance commonly involves the use of conventional explosives to initiate a blast, with test engineers standing by to glean as much insight as possible from a single, short explosion event. In addition to the obvious dangers of employing high explosives, this mode of testing is relatively unrepeatable and typically yields limited amounts of high-fidelity data.

Marty Gram, MTS R&D engineer, discusses new MTS test technology capable of accurately and repeatedly simulating blast loads in a laboratory setting - without the use of explosives.