Selected Technical Activities
Professor Krauthammer has been involved in many projects that cover a broad spectrum of technical areas. The following are examples of such activities (in alphabetical order):
Blast, Shock and Impact
- Aircraft Shelter Hardening
- Assessments of Nuclear Waste Processing and/or Storage Systems and Facilities
- Assessments of Proposed Blast-Resistant Designs, and/or Upgrades for Buildings and Facilities
- Backfill and Backpack for Military Bunkers
- Blast Containment Structures, Facilities, and Laboratories
- Blast Resistant Air Cargo Containers
- Blast-Induced Damage Assessments of LNG Storage Facilities
- Blast-Induced Damage Assessments of Buildings and Industrial Facilities
- Blast Loads and their Suppression in Tunnels and Overpasses
- Blast-Resistant Buildings and Buried Structures
- Decision Support Tool for Intelligent Bomb Damage Assessment
- Development of Advanced Shelter Systems
- Development of Innovative Computational Support Tools for Short-Duration Dynamics
- Explosive Safety Assessment of Chemical Plants, and munition storage facilities
- Hardening of New and/or Existing Buildings against Explosive Attack
- Physical Security Assessments of Buildings and Facilities
- Rocket Launch-Induced Vibrations on Building
- Shock Isolation in High-Rise Buildings
- Reactive Protection
- Precision Impact Testing
- Progressive Collapse Assessment of Multi-Story Buildings Following Explosive Attack
- Protective Residences, Offices, and/or Industrial Facilities
- Retrofit approaches for Buildings, Industrial, and/or Energetic Material Storage Facilities
- Short Courses and Technical Training on Analysis, Design, and Assessment of Protective Facilities
- Studies of Glazing Systems Behavior Under Blast
- Technical Support of Crash-Resistant Gate Development
- Technical Support for Blast Door Developments
- Technical Support for Explosive Safety, and/or Explosive Damage Assessment
- Ultra High Performance Concrete – Research, Assessment, and Application
Current and Pending Research Projects
- Modeling of High-Speed Multiphase Blast Effects, Phase II, Task 2 – Structural Response Model Integration, and Task 3 – Multiphase Blast Experiments, JHTO through the University Consortium for Applied Hypersonics (UCAH), Co-PI, 2023 (4 Years).
- Assessment of Buried Hardened Facilities under Ground Shocks from Directed Buried Detonations, US Army Engineer Research and development Center (pending award).
- Several other proposals are pending.