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Vulnerability Assessment and Risk Mitigation

Watch ASI's analysis of the Oklahoma City Murrah Building   

By merging advanced structural analysis technologies with risk assessments, ASI redefines traditional vulnerability assessment with a decision-making matrix that helps:

  • Determine and evaluate structural upgrades and eliminate threats
  • Identify architectural aspects that pose a threat to the safety of inhabitants and property
  • Calculate standoff distance

ASI’s assessments, analysis, and simulations allow the teams responsible for securing structures, regardless of their technical background, to:

  • Make well-informed decisions
  • Optimize risk mitigation plans
  • Improve overall security of the structure

Get a clearer picture of what really happens to a structure during a terrorist attack or natural disaster.

ASI’s unique technology takes the long anticipated leap into virtual reality with engineering analysis and simulations that accurately represent the local and global effects of blast, impact, earthquakes, high-winds, and other extreme loading events on structures and their envelopes.

Protect structures with expert structural analysis and review.

ASI applies advanced structural analysis technology and the latest in vulnerability assessment processes to detect areas of exposure and to recommend upgrades for securing structures.

Motivate positive decision making by visually communicating complex blast and structural analysis.

Seeing the consequences of terrorist attacks or natural disasters on a structure stimulates the sense of urgency needed to set important strategies in motion and make the decisions responsible for saving lives and investments.

When ASI performs a comprehensive assessment of a facility, it:

  • Analyzes and tests the facility against extreme loading events
  • Visualizes plans and consequences with analysis-based 3D simulations
  • Determines standoff distances, safety perimeters, and potential collateral damage
  • Protects from progressive collapse with advanced structural analysis
  • Determines the vulnerability of external glazing and windows subjected to extreme loads
  • Assesses and analyzes threat scenarios
  • Finds vulnerabilities in architecture, structure, external glazing, and building envelope
  • Tests planned or existing structural details
  • Communicates performance-based design solutions for risk mitigation options to involved stakeholders

Blast analysis of a supporting column
 
Blast standoff distances Stress contours of an internal blast

Overlaying traditional assessment with Structural Assessment
 
Collapse analysis of the Murrah building Progressive collapse analysis resulting from supporting column failure