Purpose: Evaluate expansion module to Forsvarsbygg’s HEBSim (high explosive blast simulator) to accomodate larger test panels, such as facade elements.

Our task: Assess structural integrity of proposed solution under blast loading.

Output: Simulations run in Impetus AFEA documenting structural capacity.

Purpose: Develop a roof to protect roads against rock fall and landslides.

Our task: To provide consulting in the design phase and to develop an energy absorbing structure using NLFEA.

Output: A structural design that will be tested in a full scale impact scenario.

Purpose: To evaluate simulation methods for modeling ballistic impact and blast loading in LS-DYNA.

Our task: To conduct literature review, FE simulations, and subsequent evaluations of the various methods.

Output: Report and simulation files as well as a qualitative evaluation of the results.

Purpose: To characterize the mechanical behavior three different adhesives.

Our task: Conduct various material tests, post process the results and calibrate a material model.

Output: Reports outlining the testing and post processing, and material cards for each adhesive.

Purpose: Predict energy absorption and fracture in extruded aluminum profiles with a minimum of material testing.

Our task: Tensile testing, material model calibration, component testing, model validation.

Output: One uniaxial tension test is enough to predict with reasonable accuracy the overall behavior of aluminum extrusions subjected to crushing and bending.

Purpose: Generate regularized material cards for shell elements for automotive crash simulations.

Our task: To conduct material testing, post processing, and calibration of material models.

Output: Reports, GISSMO material cards, experimental data and simulation files for LS-DYNA.

Purpose: To get an understanding of the effect of imperfections on the strain level in flexible risers.

Our task: Generate an efficient way to simulate and post process a high number of simulations with varying geometry and material definitions.

Output: Report and scripts that enable Equinor to conduct their own simulations.

Purpose: To dynamically load a flexible riser to simulate impact.

Our task: Using SIMLab’s Pendulum Accelerator, our task was to design a test set-up that enabled high energy loading of a flexible riser and at the same time obtain accurate measurements of the internal ovalization.

Output: A novel measurement system was developed, and the indentation force was characterized as a function of punch displacement and internal ovalization. These tests were also repeated quasi-statically.

Purpose: Innovation project funded by the Research Council of Norway, Equinor and Baker-Hughes assessing the structural integrity of pressure barriers.

Our task: To obtain a material capacity curve for onset of instability using a combination of numerical methods (material modelling, FE simulation) and experiments.

Output: A new test rig was developed where we are able to load specimens up to pressures of 2000 bar. Based on a combination of experiments and numerical simulations, material capacity curves describing the onset of instability was developed.

Purpose: Evaluate the structural integrity of three grades of balsa wood.

Our task: To conduct non-standardized compression and tension testing at low and high strain rates.

Output: The density that optimizes the specific energy absorption was identified from the test series.

Purpose: Characterize a rubber material in tension and compression over a wide range of strain rates.

Our task: Conduct quasi-static uniaxial tension and compression tests, as well as Split-Hopkinson Pressure Bar experiments in compression. Identify a suitable material model and calibrate it in LS-DYNA.

Output: Report describing experimental results, material model information and calibrated material card.