Organizational Unit: Shock and Vibration Computational Laboratory (SVCL)
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In a time of escalating costs for explosive testing and mounting concerns over the environmental impact of such tests, the Navy may be able to replace, or at least offset some of the expense in conducting the ship shock trials required for each new class of ship, such as the DD(X) which is currently in the design phase. With funding from Naval Sea Systems Command and assistance from Gibbs & Cox, Inc. and Electric Boat, Mechanical Engineering Professor Young Shin, his staff and thesis students have created a computer based model simulating the whole ship shock trial in a virtual environment. First implemented in conjunction with the USS John Paul Jones (DDG-53) shock trial conducted in 1994, the highly successful underwater explosion modeling and simulation process developed by Professor Shin has been continually refined and improved upon over the past decade through numerous research projects targeting such critical issues as ship systems damping, elastic-plastic response and explosive shock scaling.
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