Vehicle Security Barriers (VSBs) are frequently utilised in urban settings to defend against vehicular terrorist attacks. They may come in various forms, including bollards, street furniture and landscape features. The effectiveness of such barriers is usually assessed through a singular vehicle...

The purpose of the current handbook is to provide guidance to security and law enforcement oficials, building/site owners, venue organisers, state organisations, engineers and other stakeholders in charge of securing infrastructure and public spaces against the growing international threat posed...

Vehicle Security Barriers (VSBs) are frequently utilised in urban settings to defend against vehicular terrorist attacks. They may come in various forms, including bollards, street furniture and landscape features. The effectiveness of such barriers is usually assessed through a singular vehicle...

This report presents a revision and re-formulation of the so-called "old" model for the simulation of rigid bodies (SOLI model) in the EUROPLEXUS code. This model is based on the substitution ("decomposition") of the discretized rigid body by a mechanically equivalent set of four points in 3D...

This technical report discusses the potential use of Large Language Models for location detection with a focus on the JRC Terrorism and Extremism Database. The report highlights the current inaccuracies in the database's location detection algorithm, which uses adhoc created embeddings,...

This report presents a collection of EUROPLEXUS [1] numerical models developed at JRC for the simulation of experiments conducted in the SIMLab Shock Tube Facility (SSTF) or in other similar test facilities of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway. The...

This report presents some EUROPLEXUS [1] simulations of thin steel plates with various types of pre-formed holes or slits that have been tested in the SIMLab Shock Tube Facility (SSTF) at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway. The SSTF is able to generate...

This report looks at the innovative output of world's top Research and Development (R&D) investors using patents and trademarks as proxy indicators. Essentially descriptive in nature, the study presents statistics about the patent portfolio of companies, and their trademark strategies to launch...

The NMC Horizon Project from the New Media Consortium is a long-term investigation launched in 2002 that identifies and describes emerging technologies likely to have a large impact over the coming five years in education around the globe. The NMC Horizon Report Europe: 2014 Schools Edition, the...

The climate targets of the European Union (EU) are defined in relation to historical benchmarks: for instance, the European Climate Law requires net domestic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to be reduced by at least 55% by 2030 compared to 1990. However, for aviation and maritime transport,...