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Purdue University

Santiago Pujol

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Santiago Pujol, an assistant professor in structural engineering, loads a projectile into an impact simulator in Purdue's Robert L. and Terry L. Bowen Civil Engineering Laboratory for Large Scale Research. The apparatus fires beverage cans at various objects to study the impact and energy transfer between a fluid and a solid structural element, such as a support beam. Data from experiments using the simulator have been used to test the accuracy of a simulation to study what likely happened structurally when a commercial airliner crashed into the World Trade Center's North Tower on Sept. 11, 2001.

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Purdue News Service photo/David Umberger

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