Customer Story: TNO Prins Maurits Laboratory – Netherlands

With a proven track record of high quality defense research, TNO Prins Maurits
Laboratory (TNO-PML) provides scientific and technical advise in areas such as
explosion safety, munition effects, ballistic protection, and survivability of weapon
platforms. A combination of experimental facilities and numerical analysis capabilities
is essential.

At TNO-PML the main applications of AUTODYN include:

• Terminal ballistics aspects
related to shaped charges, KE
projectiles and armour
• Injury biomechanics (e.g., blast
wave effects on human body,
blunt trauma)
• Water-filled barricades for safe
field storage of ammunition and
explosives
• Effects of bomb attacks and
explosions onto structures
• Explosive materials processing
(e.g., explosive forming,
explosive welding)
• Mineblast modeling and fragment impact on target material

Both TNO and Century Dynamics have an ongoing involvement in research relevant to
gas explosions and blast effects. For further information please visit the AutoReaGas
web page.

Testimonial
“For a wide range of highly dynamic phenomena we can apply AUTODYN as a
valueable analysis and evaluation tool using its extensive capabilities. For special
applications we have developed user-subroutines together with Century Dynamics.
Also Century Dynamics' assistence through their help-desk, consultancy service and
implementation of custom material models or parameters has proven to be very
useful. Complex experiments are assisted by using AUTODYN as a virtual diagnostic
system with sensor locations not feasible in a physical test set-up. The accessibility of
AUTODYN for less-regular users is greatly assisted by its user-friendliness.”
Dr. D.W. Hoffmans – Program Director of TNO Prins Maurits Laboratory