Blast, Shock & Impulse Simulation for Defense Applications
Replicate the punishing extremes of combat service environments in controlled and repeatable laboratory settings to optimize the performance, durability, and resilience of critical infrastructure, naval vessels, and weapons systems.
MTS Systems is a premier global provider of advanced test and simulation solutions engineered to validate mission‑critical defense platforms against the punishing conditions of today's multidomain battlespace. Rugged and reliable, MTS laboratory-based systems are deployed worldwide by defense OEMs, suppliers, and leading research institutions to subject critical infrastructure, naval vessels, and weapons systems to high-intensity dynamic loading, shock, and strain representative of combat service environments. The repeatable, high-fidelity results produced by MTS solutions enable developers to prove whether designs of mission critical platforms can deliver the performance, durability, and resilience needed to fight, win, and survive.
Test & Simulation Use Cases
University of California San Diego (UCSD)
UCSD partnered with MTS in 2005 to build the world’s first hydraulically driven system capable of applying real-world blast loading and accelerations to reinforced concrete structural components in controlled, repeatable, and observable laboratory settings – without the use of explosives.
- Blast Simulation Application Software
- FlexTest Controller
- MTS High-force Blast Generators (BGs) - 4
- Impact Mass & Elastomer Springs - 4
- Instrumentation & Data Acquisition (design guidance)
- Reaction Frame & Mass (design guidance)
- SilentFlo Hydraulic Power Unit (HPU)
- 293 Hydraulic Service Manifold (HSM)
77th Shock & Vibration Symposium: The UCSD Blast Simulator Structures Under Shock and Impact IX 33: Laboratory simulation of blast loading on building and bridge structures MTS Laboratory-base Blast Simulation
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