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Rebar Impact on 3/16" Steel Plate

Tornado Missile Evaluator Tips

Evaluating Tornado Missiles for RIS 2015-06? We’re going to help make it a little more intuitive. Tornado strikes might not be as bad as you ...
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Tornado Missile Test: Rebar traveling 93 mph.

Tornado Missile Calculators

Looking for a quick way to find if something will survive a tornado missile strike? Try these calculators for either concrete or steel. ...
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FEA Plot Showing Stress on Pelican Case

5 Reasons To Use FEA Over Drop Testing

FEA Drop Tests Today, more and more manufacturers are switching to analytical drop tests before anything goes into production. This helps save time and money, ...
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Shipping Container Damage

Shipping Container Impact Analysis

We can perform impact analyses in lieu of drop tests to verify structural integrity. This is an example of a dropped shipping container. ...
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FEA Pipe Impact

Failure Analysis

Failures Happen, Learn from Them If you’ve made it here, something probably went wrong. And you don’t want it to happen again. Failure is sometimes ...

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Pneumatic Air Cannon for Ballistic Testing

Ballistic Testing

Normally, we can test impacts using FEA. In this case, FEA wasn't feasible, so we built a test stand to test missile impacts on block ...
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Tank Impact Evaluation

We found that API-650 tanks are more robust than most expect. The water in this tank absorbed 30% of the energy of a truck going ...
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Missile Barrier Explicit FEA Results

Tornado Missile Barriers

A nuclear plant found that they needed to protect pipes from wind driven missiles. We designed a barrier system for them using 3D modeling and ...
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Steam Piping Integrity Evaluation

Steam Pipe Integrity Evaluation

Tornado generated missiles can wreak havoc, especially on a nuclear power plant. We helped one site design and optimize a protection system. ...
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Experienced CFD and FEA Consultants

Our CFD and FEA Consultants Experience At XCEED, our FEA consultants have over 20 years of experience using solving some of the toughest problems in ...

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